declining market (Heanor in general)

Member Name: tisha66

Product:	Heanor in general
Date:	24/07/09 (72 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: some good facilities

Disadvantages: needs renovation

Heanor is a small town in the midlands, set inbetween to major cities, Nottingham and Derbyshire.

Heanor is very small but has some good things in the area. It has a very good bus service, Trent Barton, which regularly to surrounding towns and to Nottigham and Derby.

Heanor has a market square and alongside it there is one road that goes all the way through the town, A608 which leads to Derby and therefore you would probably drive rough rather then spend time there.

There isn't much to do in Heanor but here are some of the things that you can do should you visit the area: there is a leisure centre, which has a sports hall, swimming pool and a gym area.

There is also a relatively small retail park situated across the road from Tesco at the bottom of town, which has a Brithdays store, Select, Peacocks, In-store, Home bargains and an Aldi. There are lots of parkingeas in the town which are all pay and display.

If you walk to where the market square is you will find a number of cafes that are all fairly cheap and there are a number of shops. For females I would recommend visiting the Olive Tree shop, which sells lots of little pretty, girly things and I would also recommend Groovy shoes shop, which is on the market place.

There is an old antiques shop, which is just past the church and holds lots of different types of collectables, so if you're into that sort of thing well worth a look but be aware it isn't very wheel chair friendly and there are a few steep stair cases within this shop.

There is a Friday and Saturday market, however it has been in delcine for several years and it closes very early and there are only a handful stalls there.

Not to far away from the town there is also Shipley Park, which has its own pond and there are plenty to of fields and pathways to walk around. They also have a visitor centre with a cafe and a play area for children. One of the facilities available here is bike hire.

Overall I think it's a fairly quite town, which could do with a bit of renovation. There are lots of pubs which have been closed so the night life isn't very good and there aren't many jobs available either.

Summary: its an ok town but needs some tlc