About Botany Bay
5 fantastic floors of unique and interesting shopping in Canal Mill, Chorley. Take your time and explore the vast product ranges from clothing to furniture to gifts and craft all at incredible prices. Visit us today and see for yourself.
Botany Bay Description
Botany Bay is a unique shopping and leisure experience, housed in a 160 year old cotton mill, just off junction 8 of the M61 in Chorley, Lancashire. We have 5 floors of shopping including beautiful gifts, furniture, fashion and a garden centre. The site is also home to our children's play centre - Puddletown Pirates. The huge onsite car park is free and its free to enter too. With a local produce Food hall, cafe and restaurant, there really is every reason to come and spend a few hours here.
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Our Closing Down Sale is NOW ON!
With HUGE savings across all departments - everything must go!
The Botany Bay Closing Down Sale starts 17th January!
Everything must go!
Happy New Year from everyone here at Botany Bay 🎆
Have you visited our Botany Bay sale yet?
Come and join us for up to 50% off selected lines across our 5 floors of shopping. Plus, enjoy 50% off our entire Christmas Shop!
Open 11am - 5pm today - Check our festive opening times before you visit - http://bit.ly/BBOpeningTimes
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, from everyone here at Botany Bay 🎄
Let the Sale commence!
With up to 50% off selected lines across the mill, join us over the festive period and enjoy your shopping for less. Plus, 50% off our entire Christmas Shop!
Open 9.30am - 5.30pm
Not long to go now until Christmas is here 😁
Make sure it's a special one with a Your Cuddly Creations Christmas Eve box!
Each box contains:
... 16" teddy 🐻 of your choice from our stocked range Bag of fluff to fill your teddy on Christmas Eve* Packet of Reindeer food Christmas Story Book Birth Certificate Promise Sheet Wish Insert Christmas Backpack
*teddies can be pre-stuffed if you prefer
£19.99 per box
Special Offer - get 20% off any full priced outfit when purchased at the same time as a Christmas Eve Box
Boxes are available to reserve for a £5 deposit (per box) or they can be purchased and collected the same day. Call Your Cuddly Creations on 01257 460022 to reserve a box or pop in to their shop. They are open from 10am - 5pm, 7 days a week.
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The power issue has now been resolved and we are open for business.
Thank you for your patience this morning.
Botany Bay will be closed this morning due to a power cut. We will keep you updated on the situation.
Get them before they're all gone! Limited boxes left 🎁
Christmas Eve Boxes from Your Cuddly Creations
Each box contains:
... 16" teddy 🐻 of your choice from our stocked range Bag of fluff to fill your teddy on Christmas Eve* Packet of Reindeer food Christmas Story Book Birth Certificate Promise Sheet Wish Insert Christmas Backpack
*teddies can be pre-stuffed if you prefer
£19.99 per box
Special Offer - get 20% off any full priced outfit when purchased at the same time as a Christmas Eve Box
Boxes are available to reserve for a £5 deposit (per box) or they can be purchased and collected the same day. Call Your Cuddly Creations on 01257 460022 to reserve a box or pop in to their shop. They are open from 10am - 5pm, 7 days a week.
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Christmas is fast approaching!
So, here's a reminder of our opening times during the festive season 🎄
Christmas Eve Boxes now available from Your Cuddly Creations 🎁
Each box contains:
16" teddy 🐻 of your choice from our stocked range... Bag of fluff to fill your teddy on Christmas Eve* Packet of Reindeer food Christmas Story Book Birth Certificate Promise Sheet Wish Insert Christmas Backpack
*teddies can be pre-stuffed if you prefer
£19.99 per box
Special Offer - get 20% off any full priced outfit when purchased at the same time as a Christmas Eve Box
Boxes are available to reserve for a £5 deposit (per box) or they can be purchased and collected the same day. Call Your Cuddly Creations on 01257 460022 to reserve a box or pop in to their shop. They are open from 10am - 5pm, 7 days a week.
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It's been a beautiful, frosty morning at Botany Bay today ❄️
Don't miss out on our North Pole Parties at Puddletown Pirates this Christmas! 🎅
Each child will:
* Join Santa's Elves in their workshop to make their very own Your Cuddly Creations to take home, includes a 10" Bear 🐻, backpack and wish insert. ... * Enjoy a festive feast in the Winter Wonderland ❄☃ * Get creative with Christmas crafts * Dance the night away at a Snow Ball
Only £16.50 per child ticket.
Call 01257 231687 📞 Payment taken on booking. https://www.puddletownpirates.co.uk/
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There's only 4 weeks to go until Christmas 🎄
Comment 🎄 if you've already got your tree up Comment 🎁 if you've already got all of your presents sorted Comment 🎅 if you've been to our Christmas Shop already
... Looking forward to seeing who are the most festive from our followers.
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Join us for a North Pole Party at Puddletown Pirates this Christmas! 🎅
Each child will:
* Join Santa's Elves in their workshop to make their very own Your Cuddly Creations to take home, includes a 10" Bear 🐻, backpack and wish insert. ... * Enjoy a festive feast in the Winter Wonderland ❄☃ * Get creative with Christmas crafts * Dance the night away at a Snow Ball
Only £16.50 per child ticket.
Call 01257 231687 payment on booking. https://www.puddletownpirates.co.uk/
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Enjoy 30% off all Artificial Christmas Trees at our Christmas Shop!
Just 5 weeks to go until the big day 🎄
Stuck for ideas for your little ones over the festive period? Look no further than a North Pole Party at Puddletown Pirates
Each child will:
... * Join Santa's Elves in their workshop to make their very own Cuddly Creation to take home, includes a 10" Bear, backpack and wish insert. * Enjoy a festive feast in the winter wonderland * Get creative with Christmas crafts * Dance the night away at a Snow Ball
Only £16.50 per child ticket only
Call 01257 231687 payment on booking. https://www.puddletownpirates.co.uk/
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Don't forget! It's our Late Night Shopping Event tonight from 6pm until 9pm.
With various offers and vouchers available across a range of stalls and products that will only be available for tonight.
What a brilliant layout! Loads of small oldie worldly “shops” packed full of all kinds of goodies. Took me right back to my childhood! Awesome Christmas displays on the upper floors. What’s not to enjoy? Took a break after a couple of hours (couldn’t believe they had passed so fast!) and enjoyed a sausage barm with a coffee.
Well worth a visit.
We called today to ‘find’ Christmas with my two year old and he wasn’t disappointed. Absolutely fantastic displays, lovely lights (my 13 week old loved them!) and staff were amazing helpful, especially Paul who took us up and down in the service lift when the pram didn’t fit into the normal lift. �� � �
Sunday 8th October. Family time. Christmas displays made me tear. Breathtaking, beautiful. A labour of love by all involved can be seen. Truly magical, heartwarming, heartfelt. People always friendly. I felt like a child again. The buzz of the place, the smell of foods, candles, sweets and smiles all around. My favourite place. Never disappointed.
Oh don't you just love reading reviews ? Watch out for the hard sausages and window open in August cos it's warm lol..
Anyway we enjoyed the experience.. easy to get to but don't follow your sat nav if you come from Leeds as ours would have taken us the long way round! (oh wait that's a review if my sat nav) ignore that..
It's a great idea for traders to display their products, people are very friendly there no pressure sales just real people..
So much to choose from even if you just want to have a wander around and have a look..
Oh the 4th floor go check out the Christmas decks.. brilliant
Parking is alright.. ok it's not tarmac but nothing a car manufactured after 1983 can't cope with..
Great down to earth experience..
I love Botany Bay it's one of my favourite places to visit
Lovely staff
Lovely food and drinks
Had some lunch there very nice lovely day out found the staff very friendly definitely recommend well worth a visit
a lovely morning shopping n mooching there. bought a tea light holder bag and champagne fizz saver. had lunch in the cafe and got info for the dinosaur event at easter for our grandson. thanks for a lovely morning.
Yes the car park a lot to be desired but I really enjoyed looking round loads of different things to see and buy we did in the cafe at the very top I found the staff very friendly we had the braising steak it was tasty the mash was also very good in all I enjoyed the whole experience.
The Christmas floor is brilliant and the first floor has a few nice bits and bobs but the rest is getting a little shabby. Could do with a financial boost to make it worth a return visit. The staff are still lovely �
Not my cup of tea, more aimed at the older generation I think, 65+, especially the clothing range... Some good items but a tad overpriced for me...Maybe good back in the eighties n definitely wouldn't go out of my way to go there
Just been to look around because it say's that in the hobby & craft it say they do doll house craft but ..No they don't couldn't find any .but other than that the Christmas display is lovely
Car park is uneven and people could easily trip. The lift to floors is so slow. Biggest failure though is the restaurant. Expensive. £3.75 for a lukewarm bowl of soup. I use the word bowl loosly more like a small cup and a small roll.
Has the potential of being really good.
It’s not as patch on what it was, used have all kinds of antiques. It’s jus looks like it’s stuck in the 90’s now, at least it had some character 20 year ago, it’s just poor now
Heard a lot about it but was very disappointed. The place was very closterphobic and I shudde to think what would happen if there was a fire. One archaic lift taking people up and down and Xmas display on shop floor was an array of flammable plastics and fairy lights. Add 18th Century mill. Recipe for a disaster. Some of the people who go there were very rude and ignorant as well.
Due to the car park everyone is commenting on my 2 year old fell over and now has a cut and big lump on his head scrapes on his noise and knee and a fat lip!!! Do something about this dreadful car park!! The owner has enough money to land his private helicopter there, I can guarantee his helipad is nice and even.
Car park uneven and full of pot holes, shopping area ok but not really fantastic. 4th floor for Christmas is really good have to be honest it’s the best bit of it all.
Called at the restaurant for dinner and the Hot beef & onion sandwich was absolutely rubbish, sliced beef and watery onions which made the bread watery and soggy wouldn’t called it gravy either.
Will call again next Christmas as that’s the only time I call to look at Christmas things as it’s the best floor
Car park full of pot holes
Cafe on the top floor absolutely rubbish very poor quality food that's overpriced
Shopping experience not what I expected kitchen area quite nice but the rest of the floors boring
Lifts very slow and not big enough if you are in a wheelchair or have a twinpram you have to go in the goods lift won't be going back
Very disappointing visit to the restaurant. Paid £22 for 3 sandwiches and 3 drinks. The side salad was just a few pieces of brown lettuce and soggy peppers and was warm. Coffee tasted awful and cheap.
Not my cup of tea, On the positive the Christmas shop on the 4th floor was the best thing
about it.
The clothes were poor quality and old fashioned.
The food on the 4th floor was nothing special and abit over priced.
I hate to see it busy as we needed to use the lift and it took ages, and it had a mind of its own.
I didn't think it was very clean at all and people stood outside the main entrance smoking.
Defiantly will not be going again unless some serious money gets spent on it.
What a brilliant layout! Loads of small oldie worldly “shops” packed full of all kinds of goodies. Took me right back to my childhood! Awesome Christmas displays on the upper floors. What’s not to enjoy? Took a break after a couple of hours (couldn’t believe they had passed so fast!) and enjoyed a sausage barm with a coffee.
Well worth a visit.
We called today to ‘find’ Christmas with my two year old and he wasn’t disappointed. Absolutely fantastic displays, lovely lights (my 13 week old loved them!) and staff were amazing helpful, especially Paul who took us up and down in the service lift when the pram didn’t fit into the normal lift. �� � �
Sunday 8th October. Family time. Christmas displays made me tear. Breathtaking, beautiful. A labour of love by all involved can be seen. Truly magical, heartwarming, heartfelt. People always friendly. I felt like a child again. The buzz of the place, the smell of foods, candles, sweets and smiles all around. My favourite place. Never disappointed.
Oh don't you just love reading reviews ? Watch out for the hard sausages and window open in August cos it's warm lol..
Anyway we enjoyed the experience.. easy to get to but don't follow your sat nav if you come from Leeds as ours would have taken us the long way round! (oh wait that's a review if my sat nav) ignore that..
It's a great idea for traders to display their products, people are very friendly there no pressure sales just real people..
So much to choose from even if you just want to have a wander around and have a look..
Oh the 4th floor go check out the Christmas decks.. brilliant
Parking is alright.. ok it's not tarmac but nothing a car manufactured after 1983 can't cope with..
Great down to earth experience..
I love Botany Bay it's one of my favourite places to visit
Lovely staff
Lovely food and drinks
Had some lunch there very nice lovely day out found the staff very friendly definitely recommend well worth a visit
a lovely morning shopping n mooching there. bought a tea light holder bag and champagne fizz saver. had lunch in the cafe and got info for the dinosaur event at easter for our grandson. thanks for a lovely morning.
Yes the car park a lot to be desired but I really enjoyed looking round loads of different things to see and buy we did in the cafe at the very top I found the staff very friendly we had the braising steak it was tasty the mash was also very good in all I enjoyed the whole experience.
The Christmas floor is brilliant and the first floor has a few nice bits and bobs but the rest is getting a little shabby. Could do with a financial boost to make it worth a return visit. The staff are still lovely �
Not my cup of tea, more aimed at the older generation I think, 65+, especially the clothing range... Some good items but a tad overpriced for me...Maybe good back in the eighties n definitely wouldn't go out of my way to go there
Just been to look around because it say's that in the hobby & craft it say they do doll house craft but ..No they don't couldn't find any .but other than that the Christmas display is lovely
Car park is uneven and people could easily trip. The lift to floors is so slow. Biggest failure though is the restaurant. Expensive. £3.75 for a lukewarm bowl of soup. I use the word bowl loosly more like a small cup and a small roll.
Has the potential of being really good.
It’s not as patch on what it was, used have all kinds of antiques. It’s jus looks like it’s stuck in the 90’s now, at least it had some character 20 year ago, it’s just poor now
Heard a lot about it but was very disappointed. The place was very closterphobic and I shudde to think what would happen if there was a fire. One archaic lift taking people up and down and Xmas display on shop floor was an array of flammable plastics and fairy lights. Add 18th Century mill. Recipe for a disaster. Some of the people who go there were very rude and ignorant as well.
Due to the car park everyone is commenting on my 2 year old fell over and now has a cut and big lump on his head scrapes on his noise and knee and a fat lip!!! Do something about this dreadful car park!! The owner has enough money to land his private helicopter there, I can guarantee his helipad is nice and even.
Car park uneven and full of pot holes, shopping area ok but not really fantastic. 4th floor for Christmas is really good have to be honest it’s the best bit of it all.
Called at the restaurant for dinner and the Hot beef & onion sandwich was absolutely rubbish, sliced beef and watery onions which made the bread watery and soggy wouldn’t called it gravy either.
Will call again next Christmas as that’s the only time I call to look at Christmas things as it’s the best floor
Car park full of pot holes
Cafe on the top floor absolutely rubbish very poor quality food that's overpriced
Shopping experience not what I expected kitchen area quite nice but the rest of the floors boring
Lifts very slow and not big enough if you are in a wheelchair or have a twinpram you have to go in the goods lift won't be going back
Very disappointing visit to the restaurant. Paid £22 for 3 sandwiches and 3 drinks. The side salad was just a few pieces of brown lettuce and soggy peppers and was warm. Coffee tasted awful and cheap.
Not my cup of tea, On the positive the Christmas shop on the 4th floor was the best thing
about it.
The clothes were poor quality and old fashioned.
The food on the 4th floor was nothing special and abit over priced.
I hate to see it busy as we needed to use the lift and it took ages, and it had a mind of its own.
I didn't think it was very clean at all and people stood outside the main entrance smoking.
Defiantly will not be going again unless some serious money gets spent on it.