Bentley Bridge Leisure Park is an extensive modern leisure/retail park located in the

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in the West Midlands. It has been developed since the late 1990s, to the south of Wednesfield town centre. The park is split into two halves − a leisure area and a shopping area. The site is bounded by the Wyrley and Essington Canal and

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to the North and West, the recently built Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre to the South and Wednesfield Town to the East, which is easily accessed via a village link, consisting of an open plan amphitheatre style square, landscaped lawns and the newly built Wednesfield library. The first retailer to open was The Co-operative Food (owned by the then West Midlands Co-operative Society) but this was sold to Sainsbury's a few years later who subsequently expanded and refurbished the store.

History

In 2009, a plan was made to develop land adjacent to the Leisure park, which saw the creation of Bentley Bridge Business Park. Units range from . Tenants include: Euro Carparts, Tool Station, Donghua (UK) Ltd, Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust, Principal Hygiene Systems and a Mercedes Van and Truck dealership. TK Maxx opened a department store on the retail park on 27 October 2011, replacing its decade-old city centre store which had closed the previous day. In late 2014,

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opened a new store in a previously vacant unit near Cosmo and B & M.

Stores

Main Stores

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Restaurants and Cafés

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* KFC * Starbucks It’s an okay retail park but wouldn’t recommend fully

References

External links

Bentley Bridge Retail Park on CompletelyRetail.co.uk

Bentley Bridge Leisure Park's Website
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