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A serious retailer with 100 shops throughout the nation has introduced it is going to be shutting a department, in a blow to the excessive road. The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is closing its doorways in Dereham, Norfolk.

The retailer now has massive indicators within the home windows alerting prospects that it’s “closing down” and that “all stock must go”. The indicators additionally reveal why the Dereham department is closing, with smaller writing studying: “Subject to landlord negotiations.”

The department opened in 2005 as one of many first shops within the city’s procuring centre. The nearest branches are in Thetford, King’s Lynn, and Great Yarmouth. It follows different manufacturers closing shops in Dereham, together with Wilko, CarpetRight, HomeBase, and WHSmith.

This closure follows The Edinburgh Woollen Mill’s opening of latest shops in Stratford-upon-Avon, Wrexham, Chirk, Perth, Wimbourne, Skipton, Woodbridge, and Ayr in 2025.

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a British clothes retailer based in 1946, based mostly in Carlisle. The model claims to be a “cashmere and knitwear specialist” providing males’s and ladies’s clothes.

The retailer purchased Ponden Homes in 2008, Jane Norman in 2011, Peacocks in 2012, Austin Reed in 2016, and Bonmarche in 2019.

The firm went into administration in 2020 and was purchased by a world consortium of buyers, alongside Bonmarche and Ponden Homes.

In 2021, Peacocks was introduced out of administration by a senior government backed by a world consortium of buyers, eradicating it from The Edinburgh Woollen Mill to a sister firm.

As of 2026, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill operates roughly 100 retail shops throughout the UK and Ireland, specializing in excessive road places, vacationer spots, and backyard centre concessions.