Web design in Portslade that turns local searches into calls.

Portslade Village, the original settlement, sits about a mile inland in a valley of the South Downs and still keeps its rural feel, with flint buildings, a village green and the small parish church of St Nicolas. That church dates from around 1150 and is the second-oldest in the whole city of Brighton and Hove. Close by stand the ruins of Portslade Manor, a Norman manor house from the 12th century that is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, one of very few surviving Norman manor ruins in the area. Up on the downs above, Foredown Tower houses a working camera obscura, one of only two in the south of England.

The part most people mean by Portslade grew up by the water. The railway arrived from Brighton in 1840 and the coastal strip filled in quickly after that. The southern section, once known as Copperas Gap, was granted urban district status in 1898 and renamed Portslade-by-Sea to tell it apart from the old village. Mile Oak was added to the north after the Second World War. Today the district is split from east to west by the old A27, now the A270, which runs between Brighton and Worthing, and each part has kept a distinct character.

It is a working sort of place. The southern end takes in part of the busy Shoreham harbour and a good deal of the industrial centre of Brighton and Hove, with the east arm of the canal port separating the pebble beach from the town, and the main shopping run along Station Road. Confusingly for customers, Portslade station is actually just over the boundary in Hove, on Boundary Road, though it still puts London Victoria a little over an hour away. The neighbouring areas of Southwick and Fishersgate lie just to the west, across the railway line and into West Sussex, with Fishersgate keeping its own small station.

There is deep history under the modern town, too. Portslade has even been suggested as the Roman port Novus Portus, and Drove Road in the old village has been linked to a Roman road running inland. The final stretch of the Monarch’s Way long-distance path passes through Mile Oak and Portslade and follows the seafront west toward Shoreham. None of that sells a website on its own, but it is exactly the kind of specific, true detail that tells a customer, and increasingly Google, that a business genuinely belongs here rather than parachuting in from a city. Worth knowing: Portslade is part of Brighton and Hove, in ceremonial East Sussex, not West Sussex, and we keep your wording and Google Business Profile accurate on that.

Also covering: Southwick, Fishersgate, Mile Oak, Hove, Hangleton, Aldrington and the surrounding villages.