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Web design for Middlewich businesses

Middlewich earned its living from salt for two thousand years, and a chemical works still marks the eastern edge of town. King Street and Wheelock Street serve a resident catchment that reaches Cledford and Newton Heath; the industrial estates on Sutton Lane and Brooks Lane hold engineering businesses winning supply contracts across the mid-Cheshire corridor; and the Trent and Mersey Canal brings boat hire and waterway visitors through the warmer months. Trades covering CW10 find work by being the first solid result on a phone. We build sites for owner-run businesses across Middlewich, every price published before you call, the site yours to keep.

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Who we build for

Who we build for in Middlewich

The canal and waterway businesses

The Trent and Mersey Canal runs through the centre of Middlewich, and the waterway economy it supports is real: boat hire at the Big Lock basin, chandleries, overnight moorings and the Folk and Boat Festival that fills the town each June. Hospitality and accommodation businesses serving canal visitors win bookings from people who plan trips weeks ahead; appearing in those searches, loading fast on a phone and making enquiring straightforward earns the booking a slow or outdated site loses to a result further up the page.

Sutton Lane, Brooks Lane and the industrial estates

Engineering fabricators, process suppliers, logistics businesses and specialist subcontractors on Sutton Lane and Brooks Lane win supply contracts from buyers across the North West who check online before making any call. The site needs to state clearly what you produce or supply, list accreditations and standards, and make reaching the right contact simple before anyone picks up the phone.

King Street, Wheelock Street and the town centre

Shops, salons, food businesses and service providers along King Street, Wheelock Street and Lewin Street serve a resident catchment that can reach Northwich in ten minutes or Crewe in twenty. What keeps trade in Middlewich rather than sending it along the A54 is being found on a phone search, showing current opening hours and looking like a business that is genuinely open and running.

Trades and mobile services

Builders, plumbers, electricians and roofers covering the CW10 postcode from the town centre out to Warmingham, Wimboldsley and the villages between: customers search when something needs fixing and ring whoever looks solid first. The site needs to load fast on a phone, show the area you cover and make calling one tap.

Solicitors, accountants and professional services

Solicitors, accountants, estate agents and financial advisers serving Middlewich and the surrounding CW10 area work for a catchment where the nearest alternative is a short drive to Northwich or Crewe. Trust is built before the first call; the site needs to look established, answer the questions clients check before choosing a professional and make getting in touch the obvious next step.

Salt, chemicals and the Kinderton works supply chain

The salt and chemical industry has traded from Middlewich since the Romans established Salinae here, and the specialist process businesses around the works supply industrial buyers who evaluate suppliers online before any conversation starts. A site that passes a procurement check, states what you produce or supply and makes reaching the right contact straightforward earns enquiries that directory listings alone do not.

The invitation

Be the first site we build in Middlewich

Every town on this site started at zero. The first Middlewich business to build with us gets exactly what every client gets, and this page tells the story afterwards.

✓ Every price published before you call ✓ A site you own outright, no rental, no lock-in ✓ The case study spot on this page once you are live
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What we do

What we do for Middlewich businesses

Sites for Middlewich businesses are built around what each one needs to do: be found when someone in CW10 searches, load fast on a phone, say clearly what you offer and make getting in touch the obvious next step. Every price is published before you call, the site is yours outright, and if you want it maintained once it is live we do that too. If being found locally across Middlewich and the surrounding mid-Cheshire area is your priority, the site gets built around those searches first.

Street map of Middlewich with landmarks and districts
Pricing

Every price, published.

The same published price list applies in every town we serve. No quote theatre, no local premium.

Basic WebsiteBusiness WebsiteProfessional WebsiteEnterprise Website
From£1,000£1,500£2,500£5,000
Pagesup to 5up to 10up to 20agreed up front
Designtemplate-basedtemplate-basedcustom to your brandfully custom
SEOon-page basicson-page basicsfull foundationfull foundation
Support after launchhandover1 month3 months6 months
AnalyticsGA4GA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search Console
Enquiries to inbox + portalIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
BlogNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Typical timescaleup to 2 weeksup to 2 weeks3 weeksfrom 4 weeks
Basic Website A five page website that works on every screen and brings you enquiries. From £1,000 Business Website Ten pages, a blog, proper tracking and a month of support after launch. From £1,500 Professional Website A bigger site, designed around your brand, with the SEO foundations laid properly. From £2,500 Enterprise Website A large custom site with the functionality your business actually needs. From £5,000 Landing Page One page built to convert, with A/B versions ready to test from launch. £750 E-commerce Website A WooCommerce shop with your products loaded, payments live and stock managed. From £3,500 Shopify Store Setup A Shopify shop set up, styled to your brand and ready to trade. From £2,500 Website Refresh A design and copy refresh on the site you have already got, without a rebuild. From £750 Website Maintenance We keep your site updated, backed up and online. £49/mo
For the record

Five things about Middlewich, for the record

Roman Salinae Middlewich stands on the site of the Roman salt-working settlement of Salinae, which supplied salt across Roman Britain; the town has produced salt continuously from that period, giving it one of the longest unbroken industrial histories of any settlement in Cheshire
The wich towns The suffix wich in Middlewich derives from the Old English for a salt-working place; together with Northwich and Nantwich, Middlewich forms the trio of Cheshire salt towns that supplied Britain with salt through the medieval and early modern periods
The Big Lock The Big Lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the town centre marks the junction where the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal meets the main line; the chamber is wider than standard narrowboat locks because it was built to take the larger Mersey flats that once traded inland from the coast
Folk and Boat Festival The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival, held annually each June along the canal towpaths, draws several thousand visitors to the town and is among the largest free outdoor canal and folk music events in the North West of England
Kinderton The Venables family held the baronial manor of Kinderton, which encompassed Middlewich, from the Norman Conquest into the seventeenth century; the Kinderton name survives in Kinderton Street and the industrial estate on the southern edge of the town, keeping a medieval place name in the modern streetscape
Questions

Things people usually ask.

Every option and its price is listed on the pricing page of this site before you make any contact. The total is visible before any conversation takes place; there is no estimate phase where the figure adjusts as work gets underway.
Both exist. We fix a project total in writing before anything begins, so the price agreed at the outset is the price on the final invoice, not a provisional figure that can shift as the job runs. Hourly billing makes sense for small targeted amendments; for a site built from scratch it tends to leave the final cost uncertain until the end.
Most businesses in and around Middlewich are live in three to four weeks from the point the brief is confirmed. The pace is almost always set by content: written copy, photographs and decisions coming together on your side. When that material arrives ready, the build itself does not slow the schedule.
For a handful of businesses the honest answer is no, and we say so directly when that applies. For most, a referral arrives and the person who got it searches the name before making contact, to confirm the business is active and worth the call. In a town where Northwich, Crewe and a string of mid-Cheshire alternatives are all a short drive, the result of that search settles the enquiry more often than owners expect.
That is what a properly built site is designed to do. Pages are structured around the terms people in Middlewich and the CW10 postcode genuinely use, the site is connected to your Google Business Profile and submitted for indexing on the day it goes live. Search visibility builds over weeks and months rather than overnight; a guaranteed position by a specific date is not something any builder can honestly promise.
The builder or platform is rarely the obstacle. What trips most self-builds is the work needed between started and actually finished, then the result: load times that push visitors away on a phone, not enough written content to appear in local search and design choices that look dated within a year. Ownership is the real concern: on most subscription platforms, cancelling the plan removes the site. We register your domain and hosting in your name from day one; the site remains yours regardless of what happens to us.
Everything passes to you outright when the work is done. The domain is registered in your name, not ours. The hosting account is yours to take to any provider you choose. There are no licence fees attached to the build itself and no exit clauses that tie the site to continuing to pay us. Those terms are in the written agreement before any work begins.
Yes. The site is built on WordPress and you get a practical handover covering what you will realistically want to change: updating a price, swapping a photograph, editing a service description. If you would rather not deal with that side of things at all, the care plan handles it for you.
The whole CW10 catchment: Middlewich town centre and the streets around it, Cledford to the south, Newton Heath to the northeast, the villages of Wimboldsley and Stanthorne to the northwest, and Warmingham to the east. If your customers come from across the postcode rather than a single street, the site is built to say so clearly.
Yes. Working without a client-facing office is part of how we keep the project costs where they are; for businesses in Middlewich and the surrounding area we travel to your premises, or somewhere convenient, to start the project properly in person. Between those visits the work runs by phone and by email.
Either can be the right outcome. Looking at the existing site for a few minutes gives a straight answer: whether fixing what is there makes sense or whether building fresh is quicker and cheaper. There is nothing to pay for that assessment, and any improvement work runs on the same fixed-total pricing as a new build.
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