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Garden centre closes to make room for station car park

Published: 30 April 2010
Abbeydale Garden Company in Sheffield will close in June, with the land lined up for use as a car park for Dore railway station.
As reported in the Sheffield Telegraph, the family-run garden centre will close its doors at the beginning of June after more than 40 years of trading.

Now run by husband and wife Neil and Linda Grant and her sister Helen Watson, who created the Abbeydale Garden Company in 1994, the centre in was established in the sixties when Peter Godley opened Godley Gardens.

The owners have blamed recent poor weather for the closure, as well as problems with commuters from nearby Dore railway station using the garden centre car park.

The family will now concentrate their efforts on their second premises, Ferndale nursery and garden centre in Dronfield, Derbyshire.

The land will now be officially designated to parking for people using Dore station, following an offer made to garden centre by South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. Mr Grant explained that, while it was an agonising decision, they had not been forced into the position and that it was a "practical, sensible move".

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