Fully responsive web design for your countryside business

Cotswold Web • Jul 10, 2023

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Many countryside businesses are having to diversify these days. It’s not enough just to farm the land. You need a visitor attraction or a farm shop on site to keep the cash flowing. But how do you go about promoting your countryside business to let potential visitors know what you have to offer?
Cotswold Web has worked on the website design of a variety of countryside businesses from large country estates to family farming businesses and orchards.


Having your own website will showcase everything you have to offer far better than a site like TripAdvisor can. Your website will work alongside TripAdvisor – so if potential visitors search for your business (or stumble across it!) on the review site, they can go to your own site to find out more information.


We can also include booking software for visitors to book day visits, accompanied by the best possible photography and copy, to give potential visitors all the information they need to choose your countryside business over your competition.


Cotswold Web has worked on the web design of several countryside businesses. These professionally designed websites complement sites like TripAdvisor, so potential customers can move seamlessly from one to the other.

Web design for countryside businesses like farms, country estates and farm shops is surprisingly cost effective and can make a real difference to your bottom line.

Here are some of the fully responsive countryside business websites Cotswold Web has worked on…

Spetchley Park Estate https://www.spetchleyparkestate.co.uk


Spetchley Park Estate is a family-owned, rural estate in Worcestershire, which has been home to the Berkeley family for over 400 years.


The estate is made up of agricultural land, ancient woodland and parkland, along with residential and commercial properties, with award-winning gardens which are open to visitors.


The 30-acre gardens are open from April to November, with a mix of formal, informal and woodland gardens for walking and relaxing. The estate also offers a packed season of event and activities for all the family.


Cotswold Web designed a website for Spetchley Park Estate, which offers:


•   Fully responsive design
•   SEO friendly
•   Bespoke checkout functionality
•   Customer grouping/ trade accounts
•   Automated emails based on orders
•   Reward points
•   Bulk update products
•   Customer testimonials
•   Blog/ news system
•   Social media integration
•   Visitor statistics reports
•   Secure website hosting

Sezincote https://www.sezincote.co.uk


Sezincote is a 200-year-old Indian-style palace, set in a landscape of temples, grottoes, canals and waterfalls, reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. The palace is a surprising find at the heart of a traditional, family-run 4,500 acre Cotswold countryside estate, close to Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire.


Visitors are welcome at the house and garden at set opening times and a few special weddings are hosted every summer.


The family farms 2,000 acres of the estate, with a further three tenanted farms on the site. There are also a number of houses and small commercial properties available to rent on the estate.


Cotswold Web designed the website for Sezincote, which includes:


•   Stunning bespoke design
•   Full responsive
•   Quick and easy to add/ edit pages
•   SEO friendly
•   Marketing system integration
•   Social media integration
•   Content migration from previous website
•   301 redirects to preserve Google rankings from previous site
•   Secure web hosting
•   Visitor statistics reports and analysis

Hayles Fruit Farm https://www.haylesfruitfarm.co.uk


Hayles Fruit Farm is a third-generation family-owned business on the outskirts of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.


Originally planted in 1880, the farm continues to operate as a commercial venture, with 134 acres of mixed fruit.


As well as selling fruit to supermarkets, Hayles Fruit Farm makes its own ranges of ciders and apple juices on site.


The business has a farm shop and coffee shop (Orchard Kitchen) on site, along with a rural campsite right on the Cotswold Way. Tents, caravans and motorhomes are all welcome, whether for a single night or longer stay.

Cotswold Web designed the website for Hayles Fruit Farm, including:


·      Bespoke checkout functionality

·      Fully responsive design

·      Automated emails based on orders

·      Customer grouping/ trade accounts

·      Bulk update products

·      Reward points

·      SEO friendly

·      Customer testimonials

·      Blog/ news system

·      Social media integration

·      Visitor statistics reports

·      Secure website hosting

Love British Food https://www.lovebritishfood.co.uk


Love British Food is a small, independently funded organisation run by people with a passion for food and the beautiful British countryside that produces it.


British food is produced to the highest environmental and animal welfare standards in the world. Love British Food wants to encourage people to actively look for British food when shopping or eating out and discover the delights of the diverse and delicious food produced in Great Britain.


The aim is to create a vibrant domestic market for British food, which gives famers and food producers the confidence to invest in and develop their businesses, because they see a demand for their produce.

The website is a great resource, full of case studies and tips.


Cotswold Web designed the Love British Food website, including:


·      Fully responsive design

·      Bespoke checkout functionality

·      Customer grouping/ trade accounts

·      Reward points

·      Automated emails based on orders

·      Bulk update products

·      SEO friendly

·      Customer testimonials

·      Social media integration

·      Blog/ news system

·      Visitor statistics reports

 

Emmerson Farming https://www.emmersonfarming.co.uk


Emmerson Farming is a family farming business, based in Okehampton in Devon, specialising in the production of hay and straw throughout Wales and the South West.


Emmerson Farming grows its own hay and straw from seed and also purchases it from farms in the Cotswolds. It is guaranteed weed and ragwort free and suitable for farm, equestrian and domestic use.


The business offers a delivery service, as well as a collection service from the farm in Devon.


Emmerson Farming has a flock of north country mule ewes and an Angus beef breeding programme. It often has breeding stock available for sale.


Cotswold Web designed the website for Emmerson Farming, which offers:


·      Bespoke checkout functionality

·      Fully responsive design

·      Automated emails based on orders

·      Reward points

·      Customer grouping/ trade accounts

·      Bulk update products

·      SEO friendly

·      Customer testimonials

·      Social media integration

·      Blog/ news system

·      Secure website hosting

·      Visitor statistics reports


All of these countryside businesses are benefiting from the advantages of having their own website professionally designed by Cotswold Web. For a farm, farm shop, country estate or any other countryside business, your own website will be designed in exactly the right way for you, showcasing it in the best possible light, to boost sales or bookings.


What are you waiting for? Talk to us today about a professionally designed website for your countryside business.

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