The largest retailer of sports gear caps in North America will open a new store in High Wycombe at the Eden Centre.

The store, Lids, sells a range of college, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL sports team hats, as well as other items in sports fashion.

It will replace Ann Summers in unit 5 at the shopping centre and can be found in between Claire's and Rush Hair.

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With over 1,000 hat options online, the company will also be selling products from well-known fashion brands such as Nike, Adidas and New Era.

Lids was founded in Boston by best friends Douglass Karp (son of real estate developer Stephen R. Karp) and Ben Fischman (son of real estate developer Steven Fischman) in 1993.

There are 1131 stores across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada and the United Kingdom with High Wycombe soon to become the latest one.

Currently, the closest Lids' stores to Wycombe are at the Midsummer Place shopping centre in Milton Keynes and on Neal Street in London

The retailer most recently opened up in Derby's biggest shopping centre, the Derbion.

At the time of writing, there are no jobs advertised for the High Wycombe branch but the store say they are "opening soon".

The Bucks Free Press has contacted Lids to find out when you can expect the new store to open.