witham has a mainly linear town centre focused around the high street and two shopping precincts to form a cross that bisects the high street – the newlands shopping centre of 1970s design to the north, and the grove centre of a 1980s brick design to the south. there are also a range of small shops, restaurants, pubs, major high-street banks and several national commercial chains. the town also has five supermarkets; tesco in the grove center, morrisons near the railway station, asda on highfields road, aldi at the southern entrance to the town and lidl that recently opened towards the center of town on the old brampston sports centre site.