Festival Park (Stoke-on-Trent)

Festival Park is a retail and leisure complex situated within a mile or so of Stoke on Trents city centre of Hanley. It has been developed for just over 20 years having used to be a hub of heavy industry within the Potteries, once housing Wedgwood, Shelton Steel works and various coal mines were also on the site. It was developed by St Modwens following a massive garden festival which encouraged regeneration to North Staffordshire and bought massive amounts of visitors to the area. Nowadays it is an excellent port of call and is a rather large site encompassing shops, leisure faciliies and eating places. It has over a million visitors a year. Retail ...  Read the complete review

Festival Park is located just off the A500 in Stoke - the approach road from the A500 does has 40mph speed cameras on it. There were two reasons I started to visit here about 7 years ago. Number one was there is a Mothercare World here an absolutely massive Mothercare which aswell as having a Clarks it stocks loads of the Mothercare range. Number two is that not far from here not quite on the Festival park site is a large Mamas and Papas, so it easily killed two birds with one stone. Reverting back to Mothercare World this was a monolithic store that also had an upstairs which was accessible via stairs or a lift housed in a giant tree. I was disappointed to ...  Read the complete review

Festival Park Festival Park is one of the more recently developed retail / entertainment parks within Stoke on Trent. It has been around for around 20 years now, maybe a little longer and due to regeneration over the years, we have seen it expand and is very popular with the locals of Stoke on Trent. Entertainment Festival Park is a focal point for entertainment and various activities in Stoke on Trent. If you want to do something a little bit different then Festival Park will be where you can find it. Odeon Cinema The Odeon used to be the most popular cinema in Stoke on Trent under Vue opened in Newcastle under Lyme ...  Read the complete review