Herts Essentials in Letchworth Garden City

Letchworth Garden City is the world's first garden city — founded in 1903 on Ebenezer Howard's plan and built around a deliberate separation of housing, industry and green space. That blueprint still shapes how local business runs today. The original industrial belt east of the town centre (Works Road, Pixmore Avenue, the Spirella Building) is now home to a long tail of small office-based firms, makers and creative studios rather than the corset factories, parachute makers and tabulating-machine plants that put Letchworth on the map in the early 20th century. Our Herts Essentials service is perfect for businesses in Letchworth Garden City looking to establish a strong online presence and connect with local customers. Letchworth's economy shifted out of large-scale manufacturing through the 1970s and 80s — Spirella, ICL and Borg-Warner all closed their factories by 1989 — and the vacated industrial sites were redeveloped as business parks and serviced offices. The result today is a town dominated by small firms: independent retailers along Eastcheap and Leys Avenue, professional services clustered near the railway station, and light manufacturing and creative workshops on the historic Works Road industrial estate.