Local areas · Buckinghamshire

Working in Olney

Over the county line into Buckinghamshire, eleven miles south of our office. A market town of independents on the Great Ouse, famous for its pancake race.

Why Olney

Olney is the one place on this list outside Northamptonshire. Eleven miles south of our office down the A509 through Wollaston and Bozeat, it is in Buckinghamshire and looks it: a stone market town on the Great Ouse, with a wide Market Place, a tall church spire and a high street that is almost entirely independent shops.

We go there because those independents are exactly the businesses we build for, and because Olney is well placed for us. It is closer to Wellingborough than it is to Milton Keynes, and a lot nearer than most of the agencies that would otherwise be pitching to it. Half an hour in the car puts us in the Market Place.

How we work with businesses here

The first conversation is best done in person, and we will come to you. Seeing a shop, a practice or a workshop run for real is worth more than a written brief. After that the work goes online: the design shared as a link, changes sent by email and turned around the same day, and the month-to-month looking-after handled from Wellingborough without anyone needing to drive.

If you would rather keep the whole thing online, that works too. Nothing about how we build a site depends on being in the room.

Who we look after nearby

We do not yet have a client story from Olney itself. Our nearest are in Wellingborough and Northampton, and both towns have their own pages here. If your business is in Olney, or in one of the villages between here and the county line, there is space for you at the top of this list.

If you are here

The Market Place is the point: park once and walk it. The Cowper and Newton Museum is a quiet hour that explains why a small Buckinghamshire town is known around the world, and the church at the bottom of the hill is where Amazing Grace was first sung. Emberton Country Park is the walk, a mile south by the river. And if you are here on Shrove Tuesday, the pancake race is the only reason anyone is.

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Worth a visit

If you are in Olney

The Market Place

The wide market square at the heart of town, lined with independent shops, cafes and pubs, and still used for the weekly market.

The Cowper and Newton Museum

The home of the poet William Cowper, telling the story of Cowper and his friend John Newton, the curate who wrote Amazing Grace in Olney.

The Olney Pancake Race

Run on Shrove Tuesday from the Market Place to the church, claimed since 1445, with the women of the town racing in aprons and headscarves.

Emberton Country Park

Lakes, riverside paths and a campsite a mile south of town on the Great Ouse, the easy afternoon out.

The River Great Ouse

The river curves round the south of the town past the church, with meadows and footpaths either side of the bridge.

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