Web design in Newhaven, a working town that needs a working site.

Newhaven earned its name honestly. There was a Saxon village here from around 480 AD, known as Meeching, on ground below a Bronze Age fort on Castle Hill. Through the Middle Ages the Ouse ran out to sea at Seaford, but as a shingle spit choked that outlet a new channel was cut through below Castle Hill in the mid-16th century, creating a sheltered harbour and, in time, the “new haven” the town is named after. The present breakwater was built in 1890, and the harbour still handles freight and runs two sailings a day to Dieppe.

The town grew in importance after the railway arrived in 1847 and the cross-Channel ferry service to Dieppe began, and it ended up with three stations: Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour and the now redundant Newhaven Marine. It has collected some history along the way: the exiled French king Louis Philippe landed here in disguise in 1848, large numbers of Canadian troops were based here in the Second World War and the Dieppe Raid of 1942 was largely launched from the harbour, and when Lord Lucan vanished in 1974 his car was found abandoned in Norman Road, hinting that he had taken the ferry.

Above the harbour stands Newhaven Fort, a Victorian Palmerston fort built on Castle Hill after the 1859 Royal Commission and the largest defence work ever built in Sussex, now open as a museum. The town’s lifeboat, first commissioned in 1803 after the wreck of HMS Brazen off the coast, is among the oldest in Britain. On the business side, Newhaven is home to firms like the art printer King & McGaw and the Denton Island business park, with its Enterprise Centre pulling in new companies, and it is the proposed landside base for the Rampion offshore wind farm.

For a local business, that working-town identity is an asset. When someone searches “electrician Newhaven” or “near me”, Google leans on where a business actually is and how well its site is built. We write your pages so they clearly belong to Newhaven, set up your Google Business Profile, and keep the site fast on a phone, which is where most of these searches happen.

Also covering: Seaford, Peacehaven, Denton, Bishopstone, Lewes, Telscombe Cliffs and the surrounding villages.