Serving Scarborough · YO11, YO12, YO13

Websites for Scarborough businesses

Scarborough's Market Hall & Vaults holds seventy-odd small traders, and the chippies on the South Bay front are still the year-round trade.

Scarborough's been a seaside town longer than most seaside towns have existed. The YO11 postcodes hold the South Bay and the Old Town around the castle headland; the YO12s reach up past the railway station towards Oliver's Mount. The Market Hall & Vaults is a Victorian hall and underground arcade with over seventy small traders. Scarborough Castle sits on its headland, the Spa runs the autumn season on the South Cliff, and the cafés and chip shops in between are the year-round spine of the place. That's the £25/month work I do.

Get me a website See the £25/month plan

£25/month · anyone, anywhere

What you get

Your own URL, on its own domain
Hand-coded — no WordPress, no page builders
Basic on-page SEO, fast loads, mobile-first
Small content edits whenever you need them
No setup fee, cancel any month

Working with Scarborough

Most of Scarborough's working economy is small trade and seasonal tourism, not corporate offices. The Market Hall & Vaults alone holds over seventy independent traders under one Victorian roof — silversmiths, bakers, menswear, antiques, photographers, artists, a Tourist Information Point. The Brunswick Centre covers the indoor shopping, and the Stained Glass Centre, Furniture Works and Irton Garden Centre are among the named independents Visit North Yorkshire points visitors to. The £19.5m Plan for Neighbourhoods money from the UK government, confirmed in March 2025, is meant for the town centre, bus services and the Scarborough Station area over the next decade. The £25/month shape I build is the B&B on the South Cliff, the chippy on the front, the silversmith in the Vaults.

Every Scarborough site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Scarborough small businesses, not stock photos

Every Scarborough brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Scarborough businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

Some Scarborough independents we'd happily sit next to

Scarborough Market Hall & Vaults
Covered Victorian market hall and underground arcade of 70+ small traders
Houses silversmiths, bakers, menswear, antiques, photographers, artists, a Tourist Information Point and more.
The Brunswick Centre
Indoor shopping centre
Scarborough's main covered shopping centre, cited alongside the Market Hall & Vaults as a key retail anchor.
Stained Glass Centre
Showroom, workshop and café
Independent shop listed on Visit North Yorkshire's Scarborough shopping page.
Furniture Works
Independent furniture retailer
Named independent on the Visit North Yorkshire Scarborough shopping list.
Irton Garden Centre
Garden centre
Named independent on the Visit North Yorkshire Scarborough shopping list.

Streets we know in Scarborough

The Brunswick Centre
Scarborough Market Hall & Vaults
The Spa (South Cliff)

Neighbourhoods covered

Oliver's Mount
South Cliff
North Bay
Scalby
Burniston

Trade bodies & BIDs in Scarborough

This Is Scarborough (town centre organisation)

Why these industries cluster here

Tourism and hospitality
South Bay, Scarborough Castle, the Spa, Oliver's Mount and the seafront make Scarborough one of the highest-footfall coastal destinations in northern England, supporting B&Bs, cafés, chip shops and gift shops year-round.
Independent retail and covered markets
The Market Hall & Vaults alone houses over seventy small independent traders under one Victorian roof, and the Brunswick Centre covers the indoor shopping.
Small trade and seasonal services
The £19.5m Plan for Neighbourhoods funding confirmed in March 2025 names the town centre, bus services and the Scarborough Station area as priorities for the next decade of regeneration work.

North Yorkshire Council confirmed £19.5m of UK government Plan for Neighbourhoods funding for Scarborough in March 2025, earmarked for the town centre, bus services and the Scarborough Station area over the next decade (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04zxe3rgkko).

Where we work

Websites for Scarborough and North Yorkshire

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Scarborough and every other town in North Yorkshire.

Open in Google Maps

Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Scarborough build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

See what's included

How it works

From your first message to a live Scarborough link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

See the full process

£25/month · 1–2 week build · cancel any month

Get me a website

FAQs

Scarborough web design — common questions

Do you build sites for B&Bs, cafés and small traders in Scarborough?

Yes — small hospitality and small trade is most of what I build across YO11, YO12 and YO13. A one-page site with your rooms, prices, a booking form and a Google map is exactly the £25/month shape, and turnarounds are usually under two weeks.

Will you help my Scarborough site rank on Google for things like 'B&B Scarborough' or 'chip shop near me'?

No — and that's deliberate. I do the basics (sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads) but I don't sell rankings, link building or a keyword strategy. If that's what you want, a Yorkshire-based SEO freelancer would be the better call.

Do you cover the surrounding villages like Scalby, Burniston and the rest of the YO13 postcodes?

I cover anywhere in the YO11 to YO13 postcodes. Scarborough town centre is most of the work, but if you're further out — Scalby, Burniston, the YO13 villages — I can still build. The plan, the price and the turnaround are the same.

Will you set up my Google Business Profile for my Scarborough shop?

No, I don't touch Google Business Profiles at all. The £25/month covers the site itself — domain, hosting, hand-coded build, small edits. GBP is its own thing and there are local marketers who do just that.

I'm a sole trader with a stall in the Market Hall — is £25 a month really enough for a website?

For most one-person or two-person operations it is. Hand-coded, mobile-first, on your own domain, hosting and SSL included. Small edits — new phone number, swapped photo, price tweak — are usually back the same day, all in the £25.

Also serving

Other towns near Scarborough

Same £25/month plan, same process. These are some of the towns we cover just outside Scarborough.

Web design in York
YO1 · YO10 · North Yorkshire

3 postcode districts covered in North Yorkshire

See all Yorkshire and the Humber areas

Want a website?
Tell me a bit about you.

Tell me a little about you and what you want on the site. I'll come back personally the same day to talk it through — no agency deck, no twelve-step onboarding.

Same-day replyEvery enquiry answered, by me, usually the same day.

No lock-in£25 a month. Cancel any month. You keep the domain.

No spam, everYour details are used to reply to you. Nothing else.