Lancashire · England
Web design in Skelmersdale that gets your phone ringing.
Custom websites for Skelmersdale businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. West Lancashire has 1.8 times the UK share of shops selling flowers, plants, seeds and pet supplies. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.
The West Lancashire figures that cover Skelmersdale.
Council-wide figures: the ONS publishes business counts and population for West Lancashire as a whole, not for Skelmersdale, and 1 other town on this site sits in the same council area. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5.
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.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
West Lancashire has 36.1 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, against 39.3 across Great Britain. That ranks it 190th of 350 council areas.
Shops selling flowers, plants, seeds and pet supplies, are unusually common here, at 1.8 times their share of all UK businesses, followed by landscaping and gardening businesses at 1.7 times.
Management consultancies are the largest group, at about 150. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
1,525
businesses across 75 of the trades we build for, in the West Lancashire council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 150 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 120 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 105 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 85 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 65 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 65 |
| Landscaping and gardening businessesLandscapers & Gardeners · Tree Surgeons · Gardeners | 65 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 65 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 50 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 50 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 50 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 45 |
| Other personal service businesses, a category that includes pet grooming, pet boarding and tattooing,Dog Groomers · Dog Walkers & Pet Sitters · Dog Trainers & Behaviourists · Kennels & Catteries · Tattoo Studios | 45 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 35 |
| Other education providers, including tutoring and learning centres,Tutors & Tuition Centres | 35 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 35 |
Skelmersdale and the places nearby.
Skelmersdale is a new town built to rehouse Liverpool families, with estates separated by greenery and a road network that visitors famously find hard to navigate. Large industrial estates provide much of the work, and the older village core sits apart from the modern layout. Many customers live on estates with similar housing types, which suits trades offering clear, repeatable services and prices. Naming individual estates helps, and a map or clear directions on your site is genuinely useful here.
The nearest town in the same council area is Ormskirk (5 miles). Elsewhere in Lancashire, Adlington (9 miles) and Chorley (9 miles) are within reach. Across the boundary into the next council area, Wigan (6 miles), St Helens (7 miles), Maghull (7 miles) and Prescot (8 miles) are also close. If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Inside Skelmersdale, the site can name areas such as Digmoor, Tanhouse, Birch Green, Ashurst, Up Holland, Old Skelmersdale and Chapel House.
Skelmersdale (postcode area WN) sits about 198 miles north of Exeter.
How we work with Skelmersdale businesses.
198 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Skelmersdale businesses remotely, start to finish. Search engines weigh what your site says and how it is set up, so that is where the effort goes.
£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 Skelmersdale 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.