Crompton Place

Crompton Place is one of the smaller shopping centers in Bolton, it is considerably brighter and smaller than the other major shopping center — Market Place.
They isn’t really a lot here, it is still a nicer building and place than Market Place, which is quite disorganized, a little darker and more of a construction site at the moment.
This place isn’t really worth a look in, with a lack of major brands, especially compared to shops on the outside streets and in Market Place.
They is a small, independent newsagents with Adam’s News, Primark, Clarks, Specsavers, a few poundshops, The works and a Subway but that is about it.
If you’re in Bolton and looking for some time to kill, or need to visit one of these shops, it is definitely worth a look in, but otherwise I probably wouldn’t suggest bothering and can’t warrant a reason to give anything over 2 stars.

Pequeño centro comercial en el centro de Bolton. Tiene un gran Primark y unos bonitos cafés en los que parar y reponer fuerzas. Si te sientes con ganas de más, el Marks & Spencers que hay cerca es el sitio perfecto para parar y tomar el té. Ideal, ideal! :)

Crompton Place Shopping Centre is a quiet shopping centre in the centre of Bolton. This isn’t anything like the Bullring or the Arndale or the Trafford Centre. Certainly not.
It’s more about just being quiet with a few independent shops as well as some more mainstream ones like Primark and New Look.
But it’s ok here though, somewhere to shop where it’s warm and dry and no way near as stressful as the Arndale.

Bolton has two ‘main’ shopping centres, ‘The Market Place’ and ‘Crompton Place’. Personally I much prefer Crompton Place and always have done (I suppose if forced to distinguish between them I’d say The Market Place is possibly a little more ‘classy’ and has the bigger chains in it)
Cromptom place is joined to what used to be called ‘Shipgates’ which is the part of the building that houses the large Boots, Games Workshop, the upstairs of New Look and is where TK MaXx used to be.
Inside there is a chain café, several bakeries (intrinsic for the full Bolton experience of shopping and a pasty for dinner!), a newsagents, Primark, The Works, Evans, New Look, Claires Accessories etc to name just a few.
Although a little dated and lacking in seating it has a decent number of shops and also acts as i nice cut through from one side of the main shopping area outside to the other (if it’s cold and rainy you’ll be familiar with the essential nature of an indoors cut through!)
I think it could do to be a little brighter and airier with a re-​vamp but is otherwise handy and adequate. It also has the all important public toilets, two sets in fact. Bare in mind if you have a pushchair or a buggy you will need to use the lift near Boots and go down to the carpark for the toilets as the other set of toilets are only accessible by a lot of steps and are situated near New Look.