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Newmarket · Suffolk · Twenty-five minutes up the A14

Web design in Newmarket.

Bespoke web design for Newmarket businesses — equestrian yards, training stables, the High Street, the local trades, the professional services tucked behind the gallops. Built by one designer who's twenty-five minutes up the road, with twenty-five years of doing this.

25
Years on the web
25
Mins from town
1,200+
Sites built since 2001
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Designer · end-to-end
Fittocks Stud equestrian website by Lord Knows — Newmarket client Racing to School website by Lord Knows — Newmarket racing charity Prospects Trust website by Lord Knows — East Anglian client
About Newmarket
"The headquarters of British horseracing — and a working market town beside it."
17k
People in Newmarket,
plus 3,000 thoroughbreds

A small town with a global reputation.

Newmarket isn't like other Suffolk towns. It is, simultaneously, the headquarters of an industry that gets watched on every continent — and a working high street with butchers, bakers, accountants and law firms that need exactly the same kind of website any small business does.

Newmarket businesses fall, broadly, into two camps. There's the racing economy — studs, trainers, vets, transport, racecourses, sales companies. And then there's everyone else — the High Street shops, the cafes around the Memorial, the trade contractors, the professional services tucked along Old Station Road and the Bury Road.

Both groups are well-served by a website that does its job properly. Neither is well-served by an off-the-shelf template that looks like every other small-business site on the internet. The bar in Newmarket is set by Tattersalls and the National Stud Visitor Centre — the rest of the town deserves websites that don't feel out of place beside them.

Lord Knows is in Littleport, Cambridgeshire — about twenty-five minutes up the A14. Most of the work runs remote, but a meeting in Newmarket is genuinely no inconvenience — especially if it ends in a coffee at Caffè Italia.

Why local matters
3
Reasons Newmarket
businesses choose Lord Knows

Three reasons local matters.

There aren't many full-time web designers in Newmarket itself. Most local businesses end up with someone in Cambridge or London. Three reasons to consider the alternative just up the road.

01

I know the local market.

Equestrian, hospitality, professional services, retail. I've worked with all of them in this corner of East Anglia — including Fittocks Stud and Jill McCulloch right in Newmarket itself.

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One person, every time.

The same designer from the first call to the ongoing care plan. No accounts manager. No project coordinator. When the site needs a tweak before the breeze-up sales, you don't open a ticket. You email Adam and it gets done.

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03

Suffolk prices, not London ones.

Honest fixed prices, agreed in writing before any work begins. From £1,700 for a small business site — brands from £700, ongoing care from £37/month. No retainers you can't leave.

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Recent work
A few I've made in Newmarket.
02+
Newmarket clients
and surrounds

Recent work for Newmarket businesses.

Two projects from right in town — an equine stud and a public-speaking coach — with a real testimonial that captures how this works.

01Fittocks Stud — equine stud · NewmarketFull brand, website, photography arranged on-site. Equestrian sites have specific needs — a phone-friendly 'available stallions' page, photo galleries that don't crash on a yard 4G connection, sensible bloodline tables — and I've built for all of those.
02Jill McCulloch — public-speaking coach · NewmarketThe first designer who actually listened, asked the awkward questions, and then delivered exactly what we agreed. A site that speaks to her clients in her voice — not the generic coach template.
Bred horses for over forty years. Adam built us a website that looks the part, works on a phone in the yard, and has held up since launch.
Fittocks Stud
Equine stud · Newmarket
Built forthe yard.
Process
From hello to launch day.
4–6wks
Typical brochure site
kick-off to going live

How a Newmarket project unfolds.

Same four steps for every client — whether you're a yard on the Bury Road or a small business on the High Street. Fixed price, fixed timeline, no surprises.

i.

Discover

20 minutes · free

Coffee at the yard, the office, or Zoom — you pick. We get into your business, your customers, and what success actually looks like.

ii.

Plan

Week 1

A written proposal: fixed price, fixed timeline, sitemap, tech stack. Sign it or don't — no obligation either way.

iii.

Build

Weeks 2–5

Design, content, development, SEO setup. Weekly check-ins. Real pages on real domains, not Photoshop mockups.

iv.

Launch & care

Week 6 onwards

We go live together. Training included. Ongoing care plan keeps the site fast, safe and ranking — for as long as you want.

Common questions

Newmarket web design, plainly answered.

The questions every first call from a Newmarket business starts with. If yours isn't here, send it across — I'll answer plainly, not in sales talk.

Want to meet in person?Coffee at Caffè Italia, the yard, the office — whatever suits. Email enquiries@lordknows.co.uk or book a 20-minute call first.
Are you actually based in Newmarket?+
No — I'm in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, about twenty-five minutes up the A14. Most projects run mostly remotely on Zoom (saves you the trip and saves me the parking). For Newmarket-specific work I'll happily come into town for the kick-off and any in-person reviews.
Do you work with equestrian / racing businesses?+
Yes. Fittocks Stud is a recent client — full brand, website, photography arranged on-site. Equestrian sites have specific needs (a phone-friendly 'available stallions' page, photo galleries that don't crash on a yard 4G connection, sensible bloodline tables) and I've built for all of those.
How much does a Newmarket website cost?+
A small-business brochure site lands between £1,700 and £6,500, fixed price, agreed in writing. E-commerce builds (online tack, online shops) start at £4,800. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Will my site rank for '[my service] Newmarket' searches?+
Every site I build has local SEO baked in — Google Business Profile, local schema, citations, on-page work. Ranking is earned over three to six months rather than three to six weeks, and you'll want a care plan for the long game. The first month is mostly cleaning house; the next six are when it starts to compound.
Can I keep my existing logo, brand, photos?+
Of course. If your branding works, we keep it. If it doesn't, the branding service sits alongside the website build — useful when the existing identity is a copy-and-paste of something a friend made on Canva five years ago.
Get in touch

Let's have a conversation.

Twenty minutes on Calendly — no obligation. Or send a message and I'll come back the same day, Monday to Friday.

One small ask — the call works best when you've a real project in mind, so we can make the most of the twenty minutes. Same-day reply, Monday to Friday — I look forward to it.

Same-day reply · Mon–Fri

Tell me about your project.

A few lines is plenty — what the business does, what’s not working with the current site, and what good would look like.

Your details are used only to reply to this enquiry. Not added to a list, not passed on. Plain English.