Web design in Leatherhead, without the agency price tag.

Leatherhead grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, which is where its name probably comes from, and it is old enough to appear in the will of Alfred the Great in 880, when it was a royal vill. The first bridge across the Mole may date from around 1200. For centuries it was an agricultural town with a weekly market, and it started to change when the turnpike roads arrived in the mid-eighteenth century and the railway followed in the second half of the nineteenth. The High Street still runs west to east, on what was once the Guildford to Epsom road that crossed the river at the Town Bridge.

South of the town the Mole has cut a steep-sided valley through the North Downs, and Leatherhead sits on the southern edge of the London Basin, with the highest ground in the parish reaching 135 metres at Leatherhead Downs. The town has a long tradition of supporting people who need it, too: the Royal School for the Blind and Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation both set up training and treatment facilities here. Even the town’s name is an old puzzle, with scholars still arguing over whether it comes from Old English or something older and Celtic, both pointing back to a river crossing. The town centre was heavily redeveloped in the early 1980s, including the Swan Centre and the pedestrianised shopping area, a change locals have argued about ever since. None of this is filler. It is the kind of specific, true detail that makes a website read as genuinely local rather than churned out for anywhere, and Google leans towards content that clearly belongs to a real place. So we write yours to sound like Leatherhead, using the streets, the river and the neighbouring villages your customers actually know, and we set up your Google Business Profile to match, so you show up when someone nearby searches for your trade.

Also covering: Ashtead, Fetcham, Bookham, Oxshott, Epsom, Dorking and the surrounding villages.