diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 70ef1612ee..fb35fa14e9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -1355,16 +1355,6 @@ class StoreVirtualoStore(StoreBase):
     headquarters = 'PL'
     formats = ['EPUB', 'PDF']
 
-class StoreWaterstonesUKStore(StoreBase):
-    name = 'Waterstones UK'
-    author = 'Charles Haley'
-    description = u'Waterstone\'s mission is to be the leading Bookseller on the High Street and online providing customers the widest choice, great value and expert advice from a team passionate about Bookselling.'
-    actual_plugin = 'calibre.gui2.store.waterstones_uk_plugin:WaterstonesUKStore'
-
-    drm_free_only = False
-    headquarters = 'UK'
-    formats = ['EPUB', 'PDF']
-
 class StoreWeightlessBooksStore(StoreBase):
     name = 'Weightless Books'
     description = u'An independent DRM-free ebooksite devoted to ebooks of all sorts.'
@@ -1421,7 +1411,6 @@ plugins += [
     StorePragmaticBookshelfStore,
     StoreSmashwordsStore,
     StoreVirtualoStore,
-    #StoreWaterstonesUKStore,
     StoreWeightlessBooksStore,
     StoreWizardsTowerBooksStore,
     StoreWoblinkStore
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/waterstones_uk_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/waterstones_uk_plugin.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a5065128ba..0000000000
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/waterstones_uk_plugin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function)
-
-__license__ = 'GPL 3'
-__copyright__ = '2011, John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>'
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
-
-import urllib2
-from contextlib import closing
-
-from lxml import html
-
-from PyQt4.Qt import QUrl
-
-from calibre import browser
-from calibre.gui2 import open_url
-from calibre.gui2.store import StorePlugin
-from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
-from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
-from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
-
-class WaterstonesUKStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
-
-    def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
-        url = 'http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=51196&a=1951604&g=19333484'
-        url_details = 'http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p(51196)a(1951604)g(16460516)url({0})'
-
-        if external or self.config.get('open_external', False):
-            if detail_item:
-                url = url_details.format(detail_item)
-            open_url(QUrl(url))
-        else:
-            detail_url = None
-            if detail_item:
-                detail_url = url_details.format(detail_item)
-            d = WebStoreDialog(self.gui, url, parent, detail_url)
-            d.setWindowTitle(self.name)
-            d.set_tags(self.config.get('tags', ''))
-            d.exec_()
-
-    def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
-        url = 'http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/advancedSearch.do?buttonClicked=1&format=3757&bookkeywords=' + urllib2.quote(query)
-
-        br = browser()
-
-        counter = max_results
-        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
-            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
-            for data in doc.xpath('//div[contains(@class, "results-pane")]'):
-                if counter <= 0:
-                    break
-
-                id = ''.join(data.xpath('./div/div/h2/a/@href')).strip()
-                if not id:
-                    continue
-                cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="image"]/a/img/@src'))
-                title = ''.join(data.xpath('./div/div/h2/a/text()'))
-                author = ', '.join(data.xpath('.//p[@class="byAuthor"]/a/text()'))
-                price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//p[@class="price"]/span[@class="priceStandard"]/text()'))
-                drm = data.xpath('boolean(.//td[@headers="productFormat" and contains(., "DRM")])')
-                pdf = data.xpath('boolean(.//td[@headers="productFormat" and contains(., "PDF")])')
-                epub = data.xpath('boolean(.//td[@headers="productFormat" and contains(., "EPUB")])')
-
-                counter -= 1
-
-                s = SearchResult()
-                s.cover_url = cover_url
-                s.title = title.strip()
-                s.author = author.strip()
-                s.price = price
-                if drm:
-                    s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_LOCKED
-                else:
-                    s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNKNOWN
-                s.detail_item = id
-                formats = []
-                if epub:
-                    formats.append('ePub')
-                if pdf:
-                    formats.append('PDF')
-                s.formats = ', '.join(formats)
-
-                yield s