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Proposal · prepared for Aune Valley Meat · 18 May 2026

A few specific fixes for aunevalleymeat.co.uk

Aune Valley Meat · Loddiswell + Modbury · website rebuild

I rebuild small-business sites in my spare time when I can see they are leaving conversions on the table. Three things stood out in the first ten minutes of trying to reach your site from abroad. Three findings below, then a working rebuild you can click through.

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The Aune Valley in Modbury shopfront on 6 Church Street, green-and-cream Traditional Family Butchers signage
6 Church Street · Modbury · since around 1980

Three generations of Winzers. Lamb and beef reared at Higher Coarsewell, cut at Rake Farm, sold at the green-and-cream front on Church Street. Open the live preview ↗

01

aunevalleymeat.co.uk is behind a Sucuri firewall that returns a 403 GEO02 country-block to any IP outside Great Britain, so anyone abroad cannot view the shop, the cafe, the hours or place an online order.

What I saw
Loaded https://www.aunevalleymeat.co.uk/ from a Swiss IP and got back HTTP 403 with the Sucuri-branded "Access Denied" page. The block details line reads "Block ID: GEO02 ; Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator." The same load from a UK IP renders the WordPress homepage normally, so the rule is geo-only, not bot detection. The block applies to the apex domain and to every product page beneath it, so the Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb page, the Hampers page, and the entire WooCommerce store are unreachable from anywhere outside the UK.
Why it matters
A South-Hams emigrant in Sydney trying to send a hamper home to their parents in Modbury, a holidaymaker on the Costa del Sol planning a Saturday lunch at Valley View Cafe, a chef in a Berlin kitchen who heard the Taste of the West citation, a returning relative in Boston wanting to time a visit to opening hours, none of them can load the page. The Sucuri 403 is the only thing they see. The geo-block also blocks Google PageSpeed Insights from running against the site from outside the UK, which means the site never gets indexed for global Lighthouse, image-CDN, or schema-validator runs, all of which run from US infrastructure.
After rebuild
Sucuri country-block rule narrowed to the wp-admin login path only, so the public site is reachable globally while the admin panel stays UK-locked. The rebuild ships behind a Vercel edge CDN with the same WAF protections (rate-limit, country-tagged headers, bot blocks) but with the public shop open to legitimate worldwide buyers. The Modbury hamper that ships UK-only stays UK-only at the checkout step, not at the front door.
02

Three businesses live under one website, the Loddiswell farm shop and butchery, the Modbury high-street branch and the Valley View Cafe, but the homepage gives equal billing to none of them, so a first-time visitor cannot tell which to drive to.

What I saw
Across the public listings the site lists three distinct locations with three distinct phone numbers (01548 550413 Loddiswell, 01548 830240 Modbury, 01548 559126 cafe) and three distinct opening patterns. Loddiswell trades Mon-Sat 08:00-17:00 plus Sun 09:00-16:00. Modbury trades Mon-Fri 08:00-17:00 plus Sat 08:00-16:00 and closes Sundays. The cafe runs its own schedule again. The current homepage funnels everyone into a single "About / Shops / Cafe" hierarchy without surfacing which to go to for what, so a customer who wants a Sunday lunch joint has to dig two pages deep to learn that only Loddiswell is open on a Sunday.
Why it matters
Three businesses worth of footfall is being routed through one undifferentiated front door. The Modbury shop is sat on Church Street, the main A379 spine through a Saxon market town, with passing trade that wants quick directions and current opening hours. The Loddiswell farm shop is a destination drive in the South Hams hills, with a different audience, a different basket size, and a different reason to visit. The cafe is a third audience again, with the Mary Berry opening and the eleventh-year heritage that is currently invisible on the homepage. Every one of those audiences lands on the same generic header and has to figure out where to scroll.
After rebuild
Homepage restructured around three clearly-distinct cards in the fold, one per location, each with its own photo, address, opening pattern and primary call-to-action (visit the butchers, eat at the cafe, order a hamper). The architecture below the fold reuses the same three-column shape so every section, the awards, the family story, the contact, lines up under whichever of the three the visitor identified with on the way in.
03

The Winzer-family three-generation story, the Mary Berry cafe opening, the Taste of the West gold awards, and the on-farm rearing at Higher Coarsewell are all buried inside a single Who We Are page, not surfaced anywhere on the homepage.

What I saw
The current site has a Who We Are page that opens with the line "Over 45 years ago Alan Winzer started the family business" and traces Grandad Alan to Mum Susie to Richard and Amy Winzer today. It mentions Higher Coarsewell, the cabinet-built butchers shop, the eleventh-year cafe, Mary Berry cutting the ribbon. None of that story is on the homepage. The og:image meta on the homepage is the Taste of the West shield rather than the Winzer family on the tractor, or Rake Farm, or the Modbury fascia.
Why it matters
The hardest credential to manufacture in a butchery is three-generation continuity and on-farm rearing. Every other butcher in Devon advertises "local meat", but very few can show a photo of Richard Winzer on the family tractor on the actual field the lamb is being reared on, with the actual sheep visible behind him. That photo exists. It is on third-party tourism listings. It is not on the homepage. The Mary Berry cafe-opening story is on a 2014 blog post from a third party and on the cafe page; it is not on the homepage. The Taste of the West Gold for both Loddiswell and Modbury sits in the footer rather than as the lead credential.
After rebuild
Homepage rebuilt around the heritage photo as the hero rather than the award shield. The three generations (Grandad Alan from c.1980, Mum Susie, Richard and Amy today) named in the lede, with Higher Coarsewell Farm named as the rearing site. The Taste of the West Gold becomes a credential badge alongside Mary Berry as cafe-opener, not the entire homepage hero. The Who We Are page stays as a deeper read for those that want it, but the story now reaches every visitor who lands.
Pricing

Fixed scope, fixed price.

£2,000Fixed for the rebuild, one-off. £150Per month for hosting and ongoing care. £50Optional. Embedded chatbot trained on FAQs.

No retainer. No contract. No in-person visits, fully remote from Switzerland.

If the proposal lands, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three South Hams builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 28 May 2026, the proposal site comes down.

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