Serving Truro · TR1, TR2, TR3

Websites for Truro businesses

Truro's three-spired cathedral sits above Lemon Quay, the Pannier Market and a tight ring of independents doing steady trade in TR1–TR4.

Truro is small enough to walk across in a morning and dense enough that you don't need to. The cathedral's three spires mark the centre; below them Lemon Quay runs into the Pannier Market, the covered hall that's been trading on and off for centuries and still hosts more than 40 independent stalls. Lemon Street runs west past Lemon Street Market, a converted space with a café, a handful of shops and a gallery under one roof. The high street, Boscawen Street, Pydar Street and Quay Street hold the rest. Most TR1 businesses I work with sit somewhere in that ring.

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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 Truro

Truro's working economy splits roughly three ways. First, county administration — Cornwall Council is headquartered here at Lys Kernow on Treyew Road, the Royal Cornwall Hospital sits at Treliske, and Truro and Penwith College runs the county's main further-education campus. Second, retail and leisure: the Pannier Market on the east side of Lemon Quay still anchors more than 40 independent stalls, Lemon Street Market adds another small cluster of indie shops and a café, and the high street holds chains alongside long-running independents like Bishop Philpott, Busby & Fox and Trevails. Third, the cathedral-and-Hall-for-Cornwall crowd: visitor traffic feeds Fig Cafe on Lemon Street, The Kazbah on Quay Street and a string of bars around the river. Most £25/month work in TR1 is that shape: a one-room shop, a small café, a tradesman with a van.

Every Truro 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 Truro small businesses, not stock photos

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

The Truro BID installs and maintains over 1,100 floral displays across the city centre as part of its work supporting levy-paying businesses.

Some Truro independents we'd happily sit next to

Truro Pannier Market
Indoor market on Lemon Quay
More than 40 independent local traders under one roof, with a covered hall on the site since at least the Tudor period.
Lemon Street Market
Converted indoor market with indie shops, café and gallery
Off Lemon Street — a small cluster of independents under one roof, a few minutes west of the cathedral.
Hall for Cornwall
Performing arts venue and city-council HQ
Grade II listed building on Boscawen Street that also houses Truro City Council.
Bishop Philpott
Independent women's clothing shop
Long-running indie clothing shop on the high street.
Trevails
Independent clothing shop
Cornwall's largest independent clothing shop, on the high street.
Fig Cafe
Independent coffee house and café
Family-run café on Lemon Street, opened July 2013.

Streets we know in Truro

Lemon Street
Lemon Quay
Boscawen Street
Pydar Street
Quay Street
St Mary's Street
Walsingham Place

Neighbourhoods covered

Kenwyn
Newham
Highertown
Treliske
Gloweth
Threemilestone
Moresk

Trade bodies & BIDs in Truro

Truro BID

Why these industries cluster here

County administration
Cornwall Council has its headquarters at Lys Kernow on Treyew Road, and the city's status as Cornwall's only city and administrative centre brings in a steady base of public-sector work.
Retail and leisure
Cornwall's county town and only city, with the Pannier Market (40+ stalls on Lemon Quay), Lemon Street Market and the high street pulling in shoppers from across the county.
Healthcare
The Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske is the county's main acute hospital and a major employer on the west side of the city.
Heritage and tourism
Truro Cathedral, the Hall for Cornwall and the Georgian terraces along Lemon Street and Walsingham Place (often called the finest Georgian architecture west of Bath) keep a steady visitor trade year-round.

The Truro BID recently launched an Accessibility Project with Access Cornwall and continues to fund the city-centre Christmas Lights installation and over 1,100 floral displays each year (https://www.trurobid.co.uk/).

Where we work

Websites for Truro and Cornwall

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

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Truro 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 Truro 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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FAQs

Truro web design — common questions

Do you build sites for independents on Lemon Street, Lemon Quay or at the Pannier 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. TR1, TR2, TR3 and TR4 are all in scope.

I'm a sole trader in Truro — 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 'café Truro' or 'plumber TR1'?

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 Cornwall-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 TR1 to TR4 — does the postcode change anything?

No. The plan, the price and the turnaround are the same across the patch. The site just gets built around your trade and your area — city centre, Highertown, Threemilestone, anywhere in the TR postcodes.

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