Serving Bath · BA1, BA2

Websites for Bath businesses

From A Yarn Story on Walcot Street to the 18th-century Guildhall Market, BA1–BA2 still trades on its independents.

Bath packs a lot into a small footprint. Walcot Street runs north from the centre as the city's 'Artisan Quarter' — the title's been around since the 1960s — with a yarn shop, a glassblowing studio, a cheesemonger and a long-running pub all within a few hundred yards of each other. The covered Guildhall Market has been trading off the High Street since the 18th century, and Green Park Station, the restored Victorian railway building on the west side, now hosts the Bath Independent Market under its glass roof. Most of the working economy in BA1 and BA2 is small-scale: a one-chair salon, an independent café, a plumber with a van. That's the kind of work I do.

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£25/month · anyone, anywhere

What you get

Your own URL, on its own domain
Hand-coded — no WordPress, no page builders
Basic on-page SEO, fast loads, mobile-first
Small content edits whenever you need them
No setup fee, cancel any month

Working with Bath

The Bath BID covers over 680 business properties in the city centre, from a one-person jeweller in the Corridor to the chains around SouthGate. Independent retail clusters hardest on Walcot Street — A Yarn Story, Bath Aqua Glass, The Fine Cheese Co. and The Bell Inn are all within a short walk — and at Green Park Station and inside the Guildhall Market, where around 20 stallholders trade under the historic roof. Tourism, hospitality and the university spillover (the University of Bath is up at Claverton Down) keep professional services steady, but most of the SMB work in BA1 and BA2 still belongs to people running one shop, one café, one trade. That's the £25/month shape I build for.

Every Bath site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Bath small businesses, not stock photos

Every Bath brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Bath businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

The Bath BID represents over 680 business properties operating within the city-centre BID area.

Some Bath independents we'd happily sit next to

A Yarn Story
Independent yarn and haberdashery shop
128 Walcot Street — part of the Walcot Artisan Quarter cluster.
Bath Aqua Glass
Glassblowing studio and shop
105–107 Walcot Street — long-running independent glassblower in the Artisan Quarter.
The Fine Cheese Co.
Independent cheesemonger
29–31 Walcot Street — Bath branch of the cheesemonger.
The Bell Inn
Independent pub
103 Walcot Street — long-running pub on the Artisan Quarter strip.
Bath Guildhall Market
Covered market
Off the High Street — Bath's longest-established shopping venue, with a covered market on the site since the 18th century and around 20 stallholders today.

Streets we know in Bath

Walcot Street
High Street
Milsom Street
Stall Street
North Parade
Pulteney Bridge
Widcombe Parade
London Road

Neighbourhoods covered

Walcot
Widcombe
Bathwick
Larkhall
Lyncombe
Odd Down
Weston
Combe Down

Trade bodies & BIDs in Bath

Bath BID

Why these industries cluster here

Tourism and heritage
A UNESCO World Heritage city built around the Roman Baths, the Royal Crescent and Pulteney Bridge, which keeps footfall — and the small shops, cafés and B&Bs around it — steady year-round.
Independent retail
Walcot Street has held the 'Artisan Quarter' title since the 1960s and still holds a dense strip of independent traders, with further indie clusters at the Guildhall Market and Green Park Station.
Hospitality and food
Visitor traffic and the University of Bath at Claverton Down feed a dense layer of independent cafés, restaurants and pubs across BA1 and BA2.

The Bath BID, which represents over 680 city-centre business properties, secured its most recent renewal ballot for another term of investment in street cleaning, safety and city-centre events (https://www.bathbid.co.uk/).

Where we work

Websites for Bath and Somerset

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Bath and every other town in Somerset.

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Bath build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Bath link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

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£25/month · 1–2 week build · cancel any month

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FAQs

Bath web design — common questions

Do you build sites for independents on Walcot Street or the Guildhall Market?

Yes — small independents are most of what I build. A one-page site with your address, opening hours, a map and a contact form is exactly the £25/month shape, and turnarounds are usually under two weeks.

I'm a sole trader in Bath — is £25 a month really enough for a website?

For most one-person or two-person operations it is. Hand-coded, mobile-first, on your own domain, hosting and SSL included. Small edits — new phone number, swapped photo, price tweak — are usually back the same day, all in the £25.

What about SEO — can you get me ranking for 'web design Bath' or 'café Bath'?

No — and that's deliberate. I do the basics (sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads) but I don't sell rankings, link building or a keyword strategy. If that's what you want, a Bath-based SEO freelancer would be the right call.

Will you set up my Google Business Profile too?

No, I don't touch Google Business Profiles at all. The £25/month covers the site itself — domain, hosting, hand-coded build, small edits. GBP is its own thing and there are local marketers who do just that.

I work across BA1 and BA2 — does the postcode change anything?

No. The plan, the price and the turnaround are the same across Bath. The site just gets built around your trade and your patch — Walcot, Widcombe, Larkhall, Bathwick, anywhere in the city.

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