Where fashion apparel - womenswear is growing in the UK
1,957 fashion apparel - womenswear outlets across 17 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Glasgow City has the most, with 32; the top 25 local areas together hold 479 (25% of outlets with a mapped local area). The largest like-for-like net gain since the previous release is in Wandsworth (+3).
Outlet and brand counts are the Data Store's: every brand on sale, with every outlet in its file. The local-area and growth tables count the trading outlets in h3hex's master dataset that map to a local area, so their totals can be lower.
Which local areas have the most fashion apparel - womenswear outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glasgow City | 32 | 17: Mango, Hobbs, New Look, Phase Eight, Victoria's Secret | - |
| 2 | City of Edinburgh | 29 | 15: The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Monsoon, New Look, Mango, Mint Velvet | - |
| 3 | ONS area E06000065 | 28 | 13: The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Peacocks, Bonmarche, Hobbs, Mint Velvet | 0.4 |
| 4 | ONS area E06000066 | 27 | 10: Peacocks, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, New Look, Bonmarche, Mint Velvet | 0.5 |
| 5 | Leeds | 23 | 15: Hobbs, Mango, Mint Velvet, New Look, Peacocks | 0.3 |
| 6 | Westminster | 23 | 11: Mango, Whistles, Hobbs, Sweaty Betty, & Other Stories | 1.1 |
| 7 | Belfast | 22 | 15: New Look, Hobbs, Mint Velvet, Monsoon, Peacocks | - |
| 8 | Birmingham | 18 | 8: Peacocks, New Look, Bonmarche, Mango, Hobbs | 0.2 |
| 9 | Cardiff | 18 | 11: Peacocks, Bonmarche, Hobbs, Mint Velvet, Phase Eight | 0.5 |
| 10 | Liverpool | 18 | 12: New Look, Hobbs, Mint Velvet, Phase Eight, Whistles | 0.4 |
| 11 | York | 18 | 13: Hobbs, Mint Velvet, New Look, Phase Eight, Sweaty Betty | 0.9 |
| 12 | Cheshire West and Chester | 17 | 12: New Look, Hobbs, Jigsaw, Sweaty Betty, Bonmarche | 0.5 |
| 13 | Dartford | 17 | 12: Hobbs, Phase Eight, Whistles, Mango, Mint Velvet | 1.4 |
| 14 | Dorset | 17 | 10: Peacocks, Seasalt, New Look, Phase Eight, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill | 0.4 |
| 15 | East Riding of Yorkshire | 17 | 9: Peacocks, Bonmarche, New Look, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Hobbs | 0.5 |
| 16 | South Gloucestershire | 17 | 11: New Look, Bonmarche, Hobbs, Peacocks, Phase Eight | 0.6 |
| 17 | Highland | 16 | 4: The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, New Look, Hobbs, Peacocks | - |
| 18 | Solihull | 16 | 12: The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Mint Velvet, Peacocks, Bonmarche, Hobbs | 0.7 |
| 19 | Wiltshire | 16 | 8: Peacocks, Bonmarche, New Look, Seasalt, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill | 0.3 |
| 20 | Buckinghamshire | 15 | 9: Mint Velvet, Whistles, New Look, Sweaty Betty, Bonmarche | 0.3 |
| 21 | Cornwall | 15 | 5: Seasalt, Peacocks, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Mint Velvet, New Look | 0.3 |
| 22 | Milton Keynes | 15 | 11: Hobbs, Mint Velvet, New Look, Phase Eight, Jigsaw | 0.5 |
| 23 | Norwich | 15 | 10: Whistles, Hobbs, Mint Velvet, Phase Eight, Bonmarche | 1.0 |
| 24 | Sheffield | 15 | 10: New Look, Peacocks, Seasalt, Yours Clothing, Bonmarche | 0.3 |
| 25 | Southampton | 15 | 11: Hobbs, Peacocks, Phase Eight, Bonmarche, Mango | 0.6 |
Local areas are local authority districts. Brands present shows how many brands have an outlet there and the five with the most.
Which local areas added the most fashion apparel - womenswear outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wandsworth | +3 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 | ONS area E06000065 | +2 | 17 | 19 | 28 |
| 3 | Leeds | +2 | 12 | 14 | 23 |
| 4 | Westminster | +2 | 11 | 13 | 23 |
| 5 | Cheshire West and Chester | +2 | 9 | 11 | 17 |
| 6 | Cambridge | +2 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 7 | Kensington and Chelsea | +2 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | Guildford | +2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | Waverley | +2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | Glasgow City | +1 | 21 | 22 | 32 |
| 11 | City of Edinburgh | +1 | 20 | 21 | 29 |
| 12 | York | +1 | 9 | 10 | 18 |
| 13 | Birmingham | +1 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 14 | East Riding of Yorkshire | +1 | 13 | 14 | 17 |
| 15 | Wiltshire | +1 | 12 | 13 | 16 |
Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. 6 brands in this sector first appear in this release and are left out of the growth table, so that adding a brand to the data is never counted as an area growing.
How these figures are made
Counts are h3hex's own store-by-store record of each brand's published UK locations for the brands listed in the Fashion Apparel - Womenswear sector of the h3hex data store, November 2026 release (scrape window 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2026), page built 2026-11-12. Closed, pre-opening and head-office records are left out. 5 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. 4 districts created in 2023 are shown by their ONS code because the postcode lookup used here carries no name for them. Net change compares this release with the 29 October 2026 edition of the same dataset and reflects openings and closures as well as improved coverage of each brand's own locator. Resident population is Census 2021 usual-resident population by output area, summed to local authority district through the ONS postcode-to-output-area lookup (May 2024). The population table does not join to the lookup for districts in Northern Ireland and Scotland, so outlets per 10,000 residents is shown as - for them.
Use the data
Prospect site reports assess a single address against these brands, and the data store sells the fashion apparel - womenswear store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
Fashion Apparel - Womenswear by sector
- Value fashion1,152 outlets · 5 brands
- Premium & designer fashion867 outlets · 19 brands
- Over-50s fashion431 outlets · 2 brands
- Occasionwear181 outlets · 2 brands
How many fashion apparel - womenswear outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 1,957 branded fashion apparel - womenswear outlets from 17 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Glasgow City has the most, with 32.
Which fashion apparel - womenswear brands are growing?
Between the previous release and the November 2026 release, the brands adding the most outlets were Jigsaw (+4), Peacocks (+3) and Bonmarche (+2).
Which fashion apparel - womenswear brands have the most UK outlets?
Peacocks (340), New Look (292) and Bonmarche (226), as at the November 2026 release.