Orchard Shopping Centre

Pleasant clean shopping arcade. Has a few good independent shops here too which is nice to see.
Many shopping in smaller towns suffer from long term vacant units.
Thankfully Taunton's Orchard isn't one of those.
In the only empty one I did see they had implemented a clever idea by covering the front with a full size print of a florist shop.

This place lacks big named shops. The shops like Superdrug and card factory are good but to buy clothes I would have to go to Bristol or Exeter.Why hasn't Taunton got the shopping right .We do have a decent Primark so we have to be glad of what we have.

If you can avoid being sold Sky TV by a man who would probably sell a treadmill to his one-legged 90 year old grandma, then you can bask in the delights of a 1970s shopping precinct that peaked about 20 years ago.

Small and, when it's been raining outside, slippery, this is your average English town "Shopping Experience".

There is two holiday businesses next to each other, to create the ultimate sales challenge.

New Look probably headline the stores here as a half decent store.

HMV the once powerful and omnipresent store. Fallen on hard times these days, but still commands the respect it earnt in days gone by, so we'll move on...

Some place that sells dry bits of plants and fruit and apparently it's all edible. Nothing looks edible.

Claires accessories. The quintessential destination for all glamour models under 15.

Two gaming shops, one called Game. Its well known despite having spent £1 on choosing the name. The other you won't have heard of is a private company and don't have the buying power of Game but thought setting up opposite them would somehow be a great idea.

There is a really cool shop that sells paraphernalia from TV shows and films.

The back entrance to Hatchers is here. Hatchers for those of you who have not graced their floors before, it's a rather old and independent department store. Largely unchanged since the breakout of WW2 you can browse a huge variety of overpriced things. There's even a cafe upstairs which takes me back to my childhood. They used to give you a metal washer to go to the toilet but they've done away with the washers now, probably because people were melting them down.

Warren's bakery is a lovely bakery. The oldest in the country according to them. No complaints. The food is delicious.

My personal favourite, Greggs is also present. Home of the best sausage rolls in the world. I have the t-shirt.

Despite their being two bakerys and an outdoor eating area here, they took away all the bins. Then they charge you a fine for littering. I can't begin to explain the stupidity of it, so just put the bin back. Thanks.

Great shopping precinct, with some nice shops.

There is an outside eating area and the site is non smoking.

Very nice decorations for Christmas

It's a smaller shopping centre but it is in the centre of the town close to alot of shops it has a good size multi level car park lifts and a toilets.

Great shopping centre with lots of shop variety. Very clean. Parking convenient and free on a Sunday! Bargain.

Good open space, the loss of Debenhams detracts from the experience and ability to shop for certain items, with the only comparable alternate being John Lewis. If you're after Fat Face, HMV, Schuh, Apple and other such outlets it works well.

It's a shopping centre still lots of shops in there which is amazing considering the high street is struggling