Web design for businesses in Custom House
There is a famous Custom House on the Thames, and yours is several miles downriver from it.
A Custom House site that names the E16 one, for £49.99 a month.
- Website: £49.99/month
- Website design fee: £0 upfront
- Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months
Illustration: Custom House marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.
The Custom House in E16 is named after the customs office of the Royal Victoria Dock, which opened in 1855, while the Custom House most people picture is a landmark building in the City of London. Reference works keep a disambiguation page precisely because of this. For a business here, with an Elizabeth line and DLR station carrying the same name and ExCeL London beside it, saying E16, Freemasons Road or the Royal Docks side is what stops a search heading for the wrong stretch of riverbank. We design, build, host and manage that kind of site for £49.99 a month, and we can work on your Google visibility once it is live.
Illustration: a customer in Custom House types “electrician custom house e16” into a search engine. No position or result is implied.
Custom House
Named after a customs office, and shadowed by a City landmark with the same name.
The area takes its name from the custom house of the Royal Victoria Dock, which opened in 1855. That dock dominated the industry and commerce of the area from 1855 until the 1940s before closing in 1980, and the district around it was, on early 20th-century maps, simply the eastern part of Canning Town. Custom House has been part of the London Borough of Newham since 1965.
Today the commercial picture is dominated by one very large neighbour. ExCeL London is the main economic building of the area, and Custom House station serves both the Docklands Light Railway and the Elizabeth line. Freemasons Road is a principal thoroughfare near the DLR station, and Prince Regent Lane hosts the Royal Docks Community School. Around those, the area is residential and light-commercial rather than a shopping centre.
The naming problem is unusually well documented. Wikipedia's Custom House article is a disambiguation page, listing Custom House in the City of London and Custom House in Newham among others. That is the clearest possible evidence that the two words alone will not identify you: a general reference work has to stop and ask which one the reader meant. A business here has to answer that question on its own site, in the first line, with E16 or the Royal Docks attached.
- Custom House station
- Freemasons Road
- Prince Regent Lane, Custom House
- ExCeL London
The name is shared with a landmark building in the City of London, so we attach E16, Freemasons Road or the Royal Docks every time it is used.
Custom House industries
Services shaped by a very large neighbour.
A caterer near ExCeL London and an electrician on Freemasons Road work in the same postcode under completely different rhythms, one driven by the events calendar and one by the residential streets around Prince Regent Lane.
Two ways to start beside the Royal Victoria Dock.
A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both attach E16 or the station to the name, because the name alone points at the City of London.
£0 upfront website design fee
Start with a professional website.
For the trades and services around Freemasons Road and Prince Regent Lane who need an address that reads as E16 rather than as the Square Mile.
- Managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
- Built around your services, areas and enquiries
- Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled
- Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
- 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
- Nothing published until you approve it
Website included. The £49.99 is not added on top.
Or have us working on Google from day one.
For businesses trading beside ExCeL London whose enquiries rise and fall with the events calendar and who need to be found before an event rather than during it.
- Everything in Website
- 3 agreed priority Google searches for your area
- Monthly optimisation and Google Business Profile work
- Clear monthly reporting on what was done
- 6-month SEO minimum; months count towards the Website term
- Additional agreed searches £50/month each
The price is the same in E16 as it is anywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.
A reference work has to ask which Custom House you mean. So will a customer.
Adding E16, the station or ExCeL is what makes the difference. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.
- 01“electrician custom house e16”
The postcode is doing the essential work, because the two words on their own are shared with a landmark building in the City of London.
- 02“caterer near excel”
ExCeL London is the main economic building here, and a great many enquiries in this area are timed around what is on at it.
- 03“cleaner freemasons road”
The principal thoroughfare near Custom House DLR station, and a street name that belongs to this area alone.
Examples only. The three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people around Freemasons Road actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.
Illustration of a local search results page for “electrician custom house e16”: a map with pins and a short list of businesses, one of them labelled “your business”. The businesses and ratings are examples; no position is implied.
An illustration of the kind of local results SEO works towards. The businesses, ratings and positions shown are examples, not a ranking or a result for any particular business.
Eighteen months, then the website is yours.
The custom house that named this area served a dock that opened in 1855 and closed in 1980, and Custom House station now carries the name instead. Complete the minimum term here and the website belongs to you outright.
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Month 1
We design and build it
Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. We build the website around your business and you approve it before anything is published.
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Months 1 to 18
We host, manage and support it
Hosting, security, backups, updates and reasonable small changes, while you make the monthly payments. 18 payments of £49.99, £899.82 in total.
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After month 18
The website is yours
Complete the minimum term and the payments due under it, and the website belongs to you. It was built for your business, and it stays with your business.
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Your choice
Stay, or move it
Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the website to hosting of your own.
Moving the website elsewhere is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography. The full wording lives in the Website Subscription Terms.
Everything a Custom House business needs from its website, in one monthly plan.
Design, build, hosting, security and the ongoing technical work are all part of the same plan, so there is nothing to add on and nothing to remember to renew.
- Design
- Build
- Hosting
- SSL & security
- Backups
- Updates
- Enquiry forms
- Mobile-ready
- Ongoing management
- Support
Questions from Custom House businesses
Do you build websites for businesses in Custom House?
How do you stop us being confused with the City of London Custom House?
Are we part of Canning Town?
We already have a website we like. Can you just do the SEO?
What does a Custom House business website cost?
How does ongoing SEO work?
Is this the same as the Royal Docks page?
Nearby
Also working with businesses in the Royal Docks, Canning Town and Silvertown.
The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website around Freemasons Road, across the Royal Docks and along to Silvertown, Canning Town and Beckton.
Somewhere else? PrimeStart works with businesses across the whole of the UK. Find your area or get in touch.
Ready for a Custom House website that names the E16 one?
A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, for the trades and services around Freemasons Road, Prince Regent Lane and Custom House station, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right searches to find you.
18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.