Locations
Waterstones has around 300 academic and high street shops in Europe including the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland (including Dublin, Cork and Drogheda), and in the Netherlands and Belgium (including Amsterdam and Brussels). Some branches in the company are located in buildings of architectural and historical interest.
- Flagship superstores
Its flagship store on Piccadilly is the largest bookshop in the Waterstones estate. The main academic branch is located on Gower Street, between University College London and the University of London Union. Aside from the flagship store, Waterstones operates a number of large stores which are set over multiple floors. Waterstones refer these stores as 'superstores':
- Piccadilly, London (formerly Simpsons of Piccadilly) – Flagship branch with six floors with over 8 1/2 miles of shelving,
- Gower Street, London – academic branch with five floors and 5 miles of shelving
- Deansgate, Manchester – three floors, with over 100,000 books in stock.
- Milsom Street, Bath – three floors, with over 55,000 books in stock.
- La Scala Cinema, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow – five floors, set in a former cinema
- Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham – four floors, with concessions
- Large stores
- Broad Street, Reading, formerly Broad Street Independent Chapel
- New Street, Birmingham, a grade II listed former Midland Bank building (1867–1869), designed by Edward Holmes
- High Street, Birmingham, trading on six floors
- Fishergate, Preston, formerly Booths ornate grocery and head office
- St Margaret's Street, Canterbury, the basement has a display of the buried remains of a Roman bath-house
- Dawson Street, Dublin, the former location of Hodges Figgis (as mentioned in Ulysses)
- Bold Street, Liverpool
- Wool Exchange, Bradford
- Emerson Chambers, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Dolphin & Anchor, West Street, Chichester
- West End Princes Street, Edinburgh
- The Carlton Cinema, Swansea
- The Tontines Building, Parliament Row, Stoke-on-Trent
- Corn Exchange, Lincoln
- Cornmarket St, Oxford
- Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne (closed December 2007)
- High Street, Worcester (closed February 2011)
- Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes
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