About Olney Online

Olney has so much to offer people living and working here, as well as visitors, that we wanted to provide a great online showcase for the town. Hundreds of hours of work and the creation of 1500 pages of information led to OlneyOnline.com going 'live' in 2009.

Just over a year later we have recorded thousands and thousands of hits on the site. And with our sister site Visit Olney we lead in Google searches for Olney. 

Olney Online is a hub for information, events & features all about Olney. And with our 'new look' we hope an even more attractive site with: 

• Comprehensive Business Listings: from accountant to a will writer.

• A great events calendar so you don’t miss what is happening

• Extensive online coverage from parking to event schedules for our big occasions.

• News and reports with all the latest important developments in the town, plus rugby reports.

• Contacts for restaurants, pubs, cafes

• Details of the shops & boutiques

• Tourist information from the Cowper & Newton museum to our big events

• Contact details for clubs, organisations, schools, playgroups and more...

• This site was created for people living in Olney, Buckinghamshire, by Olney residents. OlneyOnline.com is updated regularly.

These features mean businesses and clubs increase the chance of being 'found'.

The beauty of Olney Online is every single business, charity club and organisation in Olney can have a presence on the internet. These pages can function as their own site if they don't have one - or provide valuable click through to their site if they do as surfers come across the information, perhaps for a shop they didn't know existed or look at charities because they are interested in volunteering.

There have been many positive comments about Olney Online: 
 

This is what the local MP, Mark Lancaster said: “It is great that Olney has its own dedicated website to tell our new arrivals and life-long residents as well as visitors what is going on in our town.”

Rebecca Green has found her listing invaluable as her hair studio's presence online: “People insist they read information on ‘our website’ but in fact we put everything on OlneyOnline and that is where they’ve seen our opening hours, contact details and price lists."

This is what a travel writer from America said:

“We had never heard of Olney until we came across your site. Thanks to the informative and easy to navigate website we could plan our days out. By just a point and click of the mouse, we’ve found information on nature rambles, upcoming events in the diary, sports’ activities, historical houses, market days, as well as shops, eateries and pubs. Before we even arrived, we put our order in for pet food and supplies and upon landing, the shop had it all ready for us. How cool is that! Thanks, C.H, Writer.”

Broadening horizons... 
 

The chance encounters that the internet provides has helped the business of Kwik Kerb’s Gaven Mumberson: 
 

“I had a call from a couple coming from the other side of Northampton and had looked on OlneyOnline for a place to eat. When they got to Olney they called me about garden paving and I met them. Not only did I get that job but I got five more in the same street. And I have had other jobs from people who have seen me online.”
   

"To grow your business you need to get new clients, not just rely on your regulars.

OlneyOnline can reach out to thousands and draw them to your business.”

Olney Online can help your business or service. Click here about advertising from £10


 

What you will find about Olney across our sections:  
 

• Use Olney Online to find out about Olney History: "From Roman times, through to Saxon times, mentions in the Domesday Book and The Battle of Olney in 1643... Olney really is an historic town. Lace making, along with shoemaking had its part to play in Olney's history in the 18th and 19th Century. Then, Olney was a poor community hit by outbreaks of cholera and smallpox. Olney now is famous for the pancake race established many hundreds of years ago, and for its connections to the slave trader turned abolitionist John Newton who is celebrated in Olney's musuem along with the poet William Cowper."
   
• Olney Online has information about sports and activities in and around Olney - from fishing on the River Great Ouse either in Olney or the villages nearby, or the recreation on offer at Emberton Park, and the great walking and cycling in Olney and the wider area. We have details of the Three Shires Way, a bridleway running through the quiet rural landscape of Bucks, Beds and Northants and Olney. And not far from Olney, Salcey Forest gives you an escape along lovely forest walkways. Want to find a sports club, local society or organisation in Olney? Then we aim to have them all listed here, with contacts we try our best to keep up-to-date. And within an easy drive of Olney and the surrounding villages like Lavendon, Emberton, Clifton Reynes, Weston Underwood, Ravenstone and Turvey you will find out about the windsurfing, horse riding, golf & swimming in the Bedford, Northampton, Milton Keynes triangle.  
  
   
• Olney Online also has a full (but also regularly added to) list of businesses from accommodation and accountants to vets, and plenty in between. We aim to be the main business site for Olney and the surrounding villages.
   
• Olney Online has dedicated pages for the Olney shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs so that you can find out what is on offer in Olney and when... You will find The Bull in Olney, The Two Brewers as well as other venues like The Lassan, Jade Garden The Four Pillars, The Courtyard and Kasbah as we aim to list all the pubs, restaurants, cafes and takeaways in Olney. Shops like Aubergine, Leo Antiques, Wardrobe use us to pass on their opening hours to visitors but we also have listings for Love Lana, Joules, The House Gallery, Bex, At Ruby's, Janey's and Allen's, Dreams, Lily T, Max's, Woosters, Twinkle Twinkle, country Style, Darwins, Derby House, happy Days, Metalyka, Nightingales and many others. We can help you find Rose Court and Foutain Court and perhaps just as importantly where to park. Use our search box to enter whoever you are looking for by name or the section headers to browse the selection.
   
• But perhaps the most appreciated section on Olney Online is the events highlights calendar on the homepage and the full calendar in the events section. Find out not just what is going on in Olney, but interesting things happening in Lavendon, Emberton, Clifton Reynes, Weston Underwood, Ravenstone and Turvey as well as further afield for notable events in the parks, towns and stately homes that are within driving distance Olney. So if Rose Court has a special event we will feature it, and to find out about the reindeer in Foutain Court our Dickens coverage will have updates.
   
• Olney Online provides a key point of information for the world famous Olney Pancake Race which begin in Olney Market Place; June's Olney Raft Race; The Big Olney Food Festival; Olney's Dickensian Fair called Dickens of a Christmas as well as The Olney Town Fireworks. We hope to assist the very hard-working organisers of these events (volunteers all) by providing accurate information for visitors. And we have sold tickets online where relevant too. 
    
• The feedback from Olney residents about Olney Online has been great: people love that the site is kept up-to-date, easy to navigate and offers the contacts and information often not available on the web.  
  
   
• But Olney Online needs your comments, to ensure we are giving you what you want. To contact us at Olney Online simply email info@olneyonline.com. Please also get in touch with your events as for local organisations such as clubs and charities we post these for free.

We hope you'll come back to www.OlneyOnline.com time and again.