Dorset · England
Web design in Chickerell that gets your phone ringing.
Custom websites for Chickerell businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. Chickerell is about 46 miles east of Exeter, where we are based, and we work with businesses there remotely. £299 to set up, then £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
The Dorset figures that cover Chickerell.
Chickerell has no ONS figures of its own. These cover the whole of the Dorset council area, which Chickerell shares with 15 other towns on this site. Business counts are rounded to the nearest 5 (UK Business Counts, 2025).
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Population estimates by local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dorset has 45.9 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, against 39.3 across Great Britain. That ranks it 78th of 350 council areas.
Compared with the UK as a whole, Dorset has more holiday lets and other short-stay accommodation than its size would suggest (2.5 times the national share) and more landscaping and gardening businesses (twice).
By count, the largest group is management consultancies, with about 725 businesses. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
6,810
businesses across 79 of the trades we build for, in the Dorset council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
These are the same Dorset figures shown on the Weymouth page, which lists every category.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 725 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 450 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 430 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 385 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 370 |
The area around Chickerell.
Chickerell is a growing town on the western edge of Weymouth, close to the Fleet lagoon and Chesil Beach, with an older village core and a lot of newer housing. Many residents commute into Weymouth and Dorchester, and the area gets holiday trade from caravan parks near the coast. A local business needs to make its base clear, because customers can easily reach for a Weymouth firm. Naming Chickerell alongside Charlestown and the Fleet villages helps a website stand out for local searches.
The nearest towns in the same council area are Weymouth (2 miles), Dorchester (7 miles), Bridport (13 miles) and Beaminster (16 miles). A longer drive takes in Crewkerne (22 miles). If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Within Chickerell itself, we build for businesses in Charlestown, Fleet, Langton Herring and Weymouth.
Chickerell (postcode area DT) sits about 46 miles east of Exeter.
How we work with Chickerell businesses.
46 miles from our Exeter studio
Projects for Chickerell businesses are run from Exeter: a call to start, designs shared to your phone, changes turned round quickly. Ranking locally depends on what your site says about Chickerell, not on where your designer sits.
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
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Let’s get your Chickerell phone ringing.
£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.