Web design in Shoreham-by-Sea that wins local work.

Shoreham-by-Sea is a coastal town and port in the Adur district of West Sussex, covering about 2,430 acres with a population of a little over 20,000. It sits almost exactly halfway between Brighton and Hove to the east and Worthing to the west, hemmed in by the South Downs to the north, the Adur valley to the west, and the river and Shoreham Beach on the Channel to the south. That position, in the middle of the coastal ribbon of towns, has shaped it for the better part of a thousand years.

New Shoreham was founded by the Normans at the end of the 11th century, and St Mary de Haura Church, the church of St Mary of the Haven, was built in the decade after 1103. The grid of streets laid out around it then still, in essence, forms the town centre today. Older Shoreham, inland by the river, has St Nicolas’ Church, partly Anglo-Saxon in construction. Shoreham held status as a Royal Port, and a 12th-century Arab geographer, writing around 1153, described it as a fine and cultivated town full of flourishing activity.

The town’s modern shape came with the railway in 1840, which turned Shoreham into a busy Victorian sea port with several shipyards and an active coasting trade, and it became an urban district in 1910 with its own town hall. Shoreham Harbour is still working commercially today. Shoreham Beach, the shingle spit to the south, was fixed in place by 1816 and defended by Shoreham Fort, built in 1857; in the early 20th century it hosted Bungalow Town and a slice of the early British film industry, with the Sunny South Film Company making its first movie there in 1912. The converted-barge houseboats on the Adur mud flats are a landmark in their own right.

Just to the west, at Shoreham Airport, sits the oldest continually operated airport in the world, which served as an RAF base in the Second World War, while to the east the old cluster of Kingston Buci still has its medieval church, manor and huge barn. For a local business, all of this is useful rather than decorative. It is the specific, sourced detail that makes a website read as genuinely from Shoreham rather than copy that could sit on any coastal town’s site, and Google increasingly favours pages that clearly belong to a place. We write your site to sound like it comes from here, name the right neighbours, and set your Google Business Profile up to match how customers actually search.

Also covering: Southwick, Lancing, Old Shoreham, Shoreham Beach, Kingston Buci, Steyning and the surrounding villages.