Bicester Shopping Village
Factory Outlet
Bicester is a busy market town and now home to the new Bicester Factory Outlet Designer Shopping Village. The town is a noted hunting centre on the edge of the Cotswolds, now equally well known of course for its Village Shopping experience. This is a busy market town set in the open countryside of North Oxfordshire, and believe it or not, the town has a population of approximately 26,000 and is growing rapidly.
The town is situated at the North East corner of the county and has a traceable history of over a thousand years and was recorded in the Domesday Book. It is a busy market town and now home to the Factory Outlet Designer Shopping Village.
At the Shopping Village you will find various amenities to make your shopping adventure as easy as possible. These include a Tourist Information Centre (providing information on the local region), as well as a children's playground, cash points, public telephones, toilets and multiple baby-changing rooms.
Whether you’re looking for that elusive must-have or simply the reassurance of a quality designer, the Village has the most sought-after brands at prices reduced by up to 60%, when only the best will do!
To ease your arrival, the Village offers ample free parking and a regular shuttle bus service to and from the North Station, which costs £2 each way. Please call +44 (0) 1869 323 535 for more information. I hope this information will be helpful.
Like Banbury further north, it is experiencing growth and prosperity from its proximity to the M40 motorway linking London with Birmingham via Oxford. Flora Thompson based her trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford' on the area north east of the town including the nearby villages of Juniper Hill, Cottisford, Fringford and Hethe.
If you're a history buff, this bit of my research will interest you: It seems the town was established by the Saxons in the sixth century. The first authentic reference to it is in the Norman Domesday Book survey of 1086 when it was recorded as Berencestra, its two manors of Bicester and Wretchwick being held by Robert d'Oily who built Oxford Castle.
By the thirteenth Century two further manors are mentioned, called Bury End and Nuns Place and later known as Market End and Kings End. It looks like Bicester could be translated quite literally from Latin to mean "The two forts" from Bi-cester.
There are several transportation options for getting to and around town, and the Oxfordshire Bus Line is very convenient. If you prefer the train or the coach from London, you have a few choices, each of these are quite dependable and run very frequently too.
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