Springfields Outlet Shopping & Festival Gardens, Spalding


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Springfields Outlet Shopping.

Autonomy - Christys - Claire's Accessories - Clarks - Costa Coffee - Cotton Traders - Denby - Designer Room - Edinburgh Woollen Mill - Event Jewellery - Farah - Fenscape - Festival Garden Centre - First Sport Outlet - Game - Hallmark - Julian Graves - Klass - Lilley & Skinner - Logo - Marks & Spencer Outlet - Mountain Warehouse - MX Active - Orvis - Papermill - Pavers - Petroleum - Pilot - Ponden Mill - Professional Cookware - Reebok - Remington- Roman Originals - Suits You - The Works - Tchibo- The Gardeners Arms Pub - Tourist Information- Virgin Cosmetics - Whittards.

Plus 12 new shops and a 43 room Travel Lodge Hotel in 2008

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With 40 well known outlet stores offering up to 60% off high street prices all year round, plus a large well stocked garden centre, you will be spoilt for choice at Springfields Outlet shopping centre.
The festival gardens, including those designed by celebrity gardeners like Charlie Dimmock, Chris Beardshaw and Kim Wilde, also include woodland walks, a childrens play barn, adventure golf and an arboretum among many other attractions.

FENSCAPE

The fens may be flat but they are definitely not boring. That's the message you get from Fenscape at Springfields Spalding.
Fenscape is an interactive tourist centre telling the story of the fens with interactive sculptures, audio visual displays, theatrical sets and graphics.
The tour takes the visitor through a bird hide to watch the plants and wildlife before the fens were drained.
There is a landscape and geology section showing how the fens were naturally formed. A judge presides over a 17th century courtroom where arguments rage for and against draining the waterlogged land.
An interview with an inhabitant of the fens who looks back to her childhood in the fens 80 - 90 years ago gives an insight into what life was like.
Fenscape has sections on the myths and legends of the fens, agriculture and horticulture from the past to the present. There is an apothecary shop with information on folk cures and medicines used to treat diseases and ills peculiar to the fens.
The David Bellamy Community Room at Fenscape has some state of the art technology to demonstrate the horticultural industry central to today's fenland economy.
Spalding's horticulture and community officer works with children and young people, and jobseekers to make them aware of the employment opportunities in the local horticultural industry.

Admission to Fenscape at Springfields is Free
Springfields gardens. 30 acres of landscaped gardens.

Springfields Opening hours.
Monday to Friday. 10am - 6pm.
Thursday 10am - 8pm (Late Night Shopping)
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday and Holidays. 11am - 5pm.

Springfields Outlet Shopping & Festival Gardens
Camelgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire. PE12 6EU.
Telephone 01775 760 909

Car parking. £1 up to 2 hours. £2 for the day.

 
Springfields Outlet Shopping & Festival Gardens web site

  Springfields Mall main shopping street

Springfields Gardens before the shopping mall.

Since 1966 the Gardens have been the headquarters of the UK flower bulb industry, and provided growers with the opportunity to have beds of daffodils and tulips planted out, giving a wonderful spring display to the thousands of visitors who came here each year. What better shop window for this sector of the ornamentals market than for consumers to actually see the flowers in bloom, and then head off to their local garden centre or DIY store to purchase their own bulbs.

In addition to the Shopping Mall and Gardens, Springfields also organises the annual forced flower show (SHE) and the world famous Spalding Flower Parade, the latter bringing an estimated 200,000 visitors to Spalding and giving a windfall opportunity for all local charities and churches to increase their donation receipts, as well as bringing much needed tourist revenue to local businesses. Adjoining the Gardens are the two exhibition halls which provide a multi-purpose facility for social and community events, trade exhibitions, concerts and specialist shows

Springfields is one mile East of Spalding at the junction of the A16 and A151, and clearly signposted on the A16 Spalding by pass. For visitors using the railways, there is a regular passenger service to Spalding from Peterborough. Spalding station is approximately one and a half miles from Springfields. There is no Sunday train service. Those organizing party outings should contact their local coach operators for details.