Notable Features
- The street names are all uniform, with roads running in a North-South direction named "Street 1", "Street 2", "Street 8", etc., and those crossing them named "Avenue A", "Avenue B", etc.
- Running along the sixty-year-old lamp posts on certain parts of the estate are electricity cables.
- The retail park is still set in grass covered bunkers.
- There are still level crossings on certain streets, despite the railway being dismantled since 1965.
- The retail park is home to a large playground, formerly home to an old tank, a Bren Gun Carrier and a fire engine, and is still home to a large mock pirate ship (about 40' in height) which can be played on by children.
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