Welcome to
Essex’sBrand NewDigital Town Square.Essex’sBrand NewDigital Town Square.
Only 100 business plots per town.
Discover Your Town Square.Claim Your Plot.Promote Your Business.
Discover Your Town Square. Claim Your Plot. Promote Your Business.
4.5★+ Google-rated businesses only
DiscoverEssex’s
40 Town Squares
Browse local businesses for free, or choose a paid 12-month advertising plot for your own business.
Pick your town belowChoose your town and claim your plot.
For local business owners
Advertise Your BusinessOn Your LocalTown Square.
Choose a numbered plot for an entire year and give local customers one clear place to find, trust and contact your business. No disappearing down a social-media feed. Your position stays yours for the year.
Stand out in your own town
Put your business on its own Town Square, where local people can discover it while they browse their town.
Strengthen your local SEO
Give Google a useful, search-friendly page connecting your business, services and location.
Reach customers across Essex
Be discoverable through the growing Town Square Essex network, not only your individual town page.
Build trust before they contact you
Show your story, photographs, business details and matched Google reviews together in one profile.
Turn profile views into customers
Send people directly to your website, phone, directions, Facebook and Instagram without making them search again.
Get extra promotion
Your business can be featured in Town Square emails and across Town Square social-media channels.
Track customer interactions
Track profile views and clicks to your website, phone, directions and social pages.
Keep your listing up to date
Manage your own profile and update your details, photographs, video and links when your business changes.
Help your town thrive
Make it easier for people to find local, share local and support the businesses that keep our towns thriving.
Take a look around
What’s Inside Your
Town Square?
Discover up to 100 of the best businessesin your town, all in one place.
Featured local businesses
Meet the independent people and places making their mark locally.
The newest arrivals
See who has just joined before everybody else finds them.
What’s on nearby
Discover local events, offers and useful reasons to head into town.
100 local business positions
Browse food and drink, trades, shopping, motoring, health, beauty and professional services.
Direct ways to get in touch
Call, visit their website, get directions or open their Facebook and Instagram without searching again.
Reviews and real business details
See matched Google reviews, photographs, opening information and the people behind the business.
Find local.Share local.Keep Essex thriving.
Great local businesses should not depend on somebody saying, “You should try that place…” Town Square makes them easier to find, easier to share and far harder to lose.
Discover local
Find independent businesses and useful services in your own town.
Share local
Send friends and family straight to a business profile or local event.
Support local
Choose the businesses that give Essex’s towns their character.
A few things you might be wondering
Town Square Essex FAQs.
What exactly is Town Square Essex?
It is a growing network of digital Town Squares for Essex. Each town has 100 numbered plots containing local business profiles, alongside local events and useful ways to discover what is nearby.
Is it only for shops on the high street?
No. You will find shops, cafés, trades, professional services, mobile businesses, online businesses and people working from home. If they are genuinely local to the town, they belong in the Square.
How do I find businesses in my town?
Choose your town above, enter its Square and browse all 100 plots or filter by category. Press any occupied plot to open the business profile.
Can I advertise my own business?
Yes. Choose your town, select an available numbered plot and build your profile after checkout. Every profile is reviewed before it goes live.
What happens if my town is not listed?
Send us the town name using the link beneath the town list. We are building Town Square Essex one town at a time, so yours may be next.
Who’s Behind Town Square Essex?
Essex is full of brilliant local businesses, but half the time you only hear about them when somebody says, “You should try that place…”
Or you need a trade and end up trawling through Facebook posts from three years ago, hoping somebody still has the number.
We built Town Square Essex to make those businesses easier to find, easier to support and far harder to lose, because our towns would not be the same without them.
Town Square Essex was created by Amir & Katy, founders of The Marketing Guy.
No big corporate B.S. Just local people helping local businesses get seen, one town at a time.
Your next local favourite could be one click away.
A café you have never tried. A trusted trade you did not know was nearby. A brilliant independent shop you would rather not lose.
Find Your Town Square