The UK's largest artificial Christmas tree will be unveiled at McArthurGlen’s Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet on Thursday, November 12 this year.

In a break from tradition, the tree will be situated in Car Park A near the Nike shop, because of the development of the flagship Polo Ralph Lauren store due to open in December 2015.

The Christmas tree will sparkle with more than 100,000 twinkling lights and visitors will be able to walk inside through a magical giant archway.

The time for this year's event has not yet been confirmed but last year it kicked off at 6pm and as usual, visitors are advised to arrive early.

View a gallery from last year's giant Christmas tree:

The facts:

  • The tree is 90 ft high
  • It weighs 18-ton
  • It cost £100,000
  • The tree features more than five miles of fairy lights
  • It has 100,000 bulbs
  • 1,000 of those are football-sized red baubles
  • 20,000 are small red baubles
  • 1.2 miles of structural cabling and half a ton of nuts and bolts holds the tree together