Clayton Square Shopping Centre is an inner-city shopping centre located in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is in close proximity to Liverpool Lime Street

Liverpool Lime Street railway station

Liverpool Lime Street is a railway station serving the city centre of Liverpool, England. The station lies on a branch of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston, and on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network...

 and Liverpool Central railway station

Liverpool Central railway station

Liverpool Central railway station is a railway station in Liverpool, England, and forms the central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. In the years 2008/09, Liverpool Central station was shown to be the busiest station in Liverpool, despite being...

s. It is the city's fourth largest shopping centre behind Liverpool One, St. John's Shopping Centre

St. John's Shopping Centre

St John's Shopping Centre is the largest covered shopping centre in the city of Liverpool, located in the heart of the city since 1969 and boasting over 100 retailers...

 and Metquarter

Metquarter

Metquarter is an luxury shopping centre consisting primarily of boutique stores located in central Liverpool, England.-History:The current Metquarter building previously served as Liverpool's General Post Office, and was probably the finest post office in the UK, reminiscent of a French chateau...

. Clayton Square sees tough competition from the likes of Liverpool One, St.Johns, Metquarter, Church Street

Church Street, Liverpool

Church Street is Liverpool's main shopping area, lying between Bold Street to the East and Lord Street to the West. It takes its name from St Peters a church consecraited in 1704 and demolished in 1923. Liverpool One opened fully in October 2008 being the redevelopment of a large part of the...

, Lord Street

Lord Street, Liverpool

Lord Street is one of the main streets in central Liverpool, England that forms the city's main shopping district. The street is relatively short at less than 300 metres in length, it joins on to Church Street to the east and James Street alongside Derby Square and the Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts...

 and Bold Street

Bold Street, Liverpool

Bold Street is a street in Liverpool, England. It is known for its cafés and for the Church of St Luke, which is situated at the top end. The bottom end leads into the area surrounding Clayton Square, which is part of the main retail district of central Liverpool. The bottom end contains more...

. There are dozens of vacant units within the centre with only 23 stores and services operating as of October 2010. In April 2010, Swedish hardware store Clas Ohlson

Clas Ohlson

Clas Ohlson is a Swedish hardware chain store and mail-order firm that sells amongst other things, hardware, electrical, multimedia, and home and leisure products. It is the biggest of its type in Scandinavia, with a total number of Clas Ohlson stores is 121 as of July 2010. Stores also exist in...

 opened its sixth UK store in Clayton Square occupying the former premises of Zavvi

Zavvi

Zavvi was an entertainment retail chain in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, originally Virgin Megastores. Zavvi was formed in September 2007 when a management buy-out team purchased the company from Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group....

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External links

• Clayton Square Online