Norfolk · England
Web design in Wells-next-the-Sea that gets your phone ringing.
Custom websites for Wells-next-the-Sea businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. A good Wells-next-the-Sea site also names the places around it, starting with Fakenham, 9 miles away. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
The North Norfolk figures that cover Wells-next-the-Sea.
Wells-next-the-Sea has no ONS figures of its own. These cover the whole of the North Norfolk council area, which Wells-next-the-Sea shares with 6 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.
Per head of population, North Norfolk is about average: 40.5 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 137th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: holiday lets and other short-stay accommodation, at 7.0 times the national share, and hotels, guest houses and similar serviced accommodation, at twice.
By count, the largest group is management consultancies, with about 135 businesses. At the other end, dental practices are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
1,570
businesses across 72 of the trades we build for, in the North Norfolk council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
These are the same North Norfolk figures shown on the Cromer page, which lists every category.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 135 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 115 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 90 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 90 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 80 |
Around Wells-next-the-Sea.
Wells-next-the-Sea is a small harbour town on the north Norfolk coast, with a quay, beach huts at the edge of pinewoods and the Holkham estate next door. Summer visitors and second-home owners dominate much of the year, and many properties are holiday lets. Trades find steady work turning properties around between bookings, often for owners who live elsewhere, so clear communication and photos of finished jobs matter as much as local presence.
The nearest towns in the same council area are Fakenham (9 miles), Holt (10 miles), Sheringham (15 miles) and Cromer (19 miles). Elsewhere in Norfolk, Hunstanton (15 miles), Reepham (17 miles), Dereham (19 miles) and Aylsham (20 miles) are within reach. If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Holkham, Wighton, Warham, Stiffkey and Burnham Market: if you work in particular parts of Wells-next-the-Sea, those names belong on the site.
From our base in Exeter, Wells-next-the-Sea is about 242 miles to the north-east. Its postcodes start NR.
How we work with Wells-next-the-Sea businesses.
242 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Wells-next-the-Sea 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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