20 new companies
registered in Barnstaple, August 2026.

229 over the last twelve months across 39 trades, the newest 50 named below. That is a new business about one a day, on your doorstep. 12 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 4 this week (provisional).

Snapshot 1 September 2026, monthly, not live. Counted by registered-office post town with formation-agent addresses taken out, so it runs lower than a raw feed. How it is counted.

All trades · BarnstapleAugust 2026
New in August
20
24 trade rows; a company in two trades counts once here
Last 12 months
229
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 2 of 39 trades busy enough for a page
Share of all 1,082 towns
<0.1%
277 of the 499,559 companies counted across every town in the last twelve months. That puts Barnstaple number 334 in the ranking.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
12
4 in the last 7 days · Provisional: from the Companies House API feed, limited companies only, before the monthly register file.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 September 2026
The register

The 50 newest companies registered in Barnstaple.

Straight from the Companies House register, newest first, across all 39 trades. Every company number links to its own record there, and every trade links to the full list for Barnstaple.

The 50 most recent of 229 companies registered in Barnstaple, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Trade Registered
ADKEM BEAUTY PLUS LTD Online retail 28 August 2026
BARNSTAPLE BARBER SHOP LIMITED Hairdressing & beauty 28 August 2026
ELLIOTTS FABRICATION LTD Construction 28 August 2026
SINGULARITY POINT SOFTWARE LTD Architecture & engineering 28 August 2026
E.K.M.MEDIA LIMITED Advertising & design 27 August 2026
JOANY BEAR ENTERPRISES LTD IT support 26 August 2026
THE SCARLET MOTORWORKS LTD Property investment & letting 25 August 2026
EXTRA TECHRESTRIAL LTD Web & software development 24 August 2026
L&J PAYNE LTD Property investment & letting 24 August 2026
STORTON ELECTRICAL & RENEWABLES LTD Construction, Electricians 24 August 2026
BALDY AND GREY PROPERTY LIMITED Property investment & letting 21 August 2026
SIMMONDSPALLETTRANSPORT LTD Freight & couriers 21 August 2026
WILSON’S OF MAIDEN STREET LTD Pubs & bars 17 August 2026
JUST TAXI26 LIMITED Freight & couriers 14 August 2026
RM CONSULTANCY (SW) LTD Management consultancy, Photography 12 August 2026
R&R BURGERS LTD Takeaways 7 August 2026
JAC HOSPITALITY/LEISURE LTD Pubs & bars 6 August 2026
DESCO GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED Property investment & letting 3 August 2026
SOUTH WEST PROPERTY SOLUTIONS LTD Cleaning services, Construction 3 August 2026
SQUEACLE LTD Accounting, Business support services 3 August 2026
WP LAND LTD Construction, Property investment & letting 31 July 2026
TUKWIZA INSIGHT CONSULTING LIMITED Accounting, Management consultancy 30 July 2026
MUD, SWEAT AND BRICKS LTD Construction 27 July 2026
NEATE & KELLY ENGINEERING LTD Architecture & engineering 27 July 2026
KCPOWDERCOATING LTD Motor vehicle repair 26 July 2026
FENSTRA LTD Architecture & engineering 17 July 2026
NATIONAL CLAIM EXPERTS LTD Advertising & design 17 July 2026
BY ZOE LTD Management consultancy 16 July 2026
CPS AUTOMOTIVE GROUP LTD Used car dealers 15 July 2026
NORTH DEVON FIRE & SECURITY LTD Construction, Electricians 15 July 2026
DEVONIAN FORGE LTD Web & software development 13 July 2026
KEVARO SPORTSWEAR LIMITED Online retail 10 July 2026
WHITEHOUSE SPORTSWEAR LIMITED Online retail 10 July 2026
ZEPHDEV LTD Web & software development 7 July 2026
GN PLUMBING SOUTH WEST LTD Construction, Plumbers & HVAC 6 July 2026
COASTAL CATERING (SW) LIMITED Catering & events, Restaurants & cafes 3 July 2026
QK ADVISORY LIMITED Management consultancy 1 July 2026
HYDASPES GROUP LTD Architecture & engineering, IT consultancy 26 June 2026
THE MARKET TOWN COLLECTION LIMITED Pubs & bars 26 June 2026
NHR 1 LTD Restaurants & cafes 24 June 2026
THE THREE TUNS BAR & RESTAURANT LTD Pubs & bars, Restaurants & cafes 24 June 2026
BARUM PROPERTY LTD Property investment & letting 21 June 2026
R&L HOWCROFT LIMITED Property investment & letting 20 June 2026
NORTH DEVON BARBERSHOP LTD Hairdressing & beauty 19 June 2026
AYRTON MAISEY PROPERTIES LTD Property investment & letting 18 June 2026
REFURB DEPOT LIMITED Motor vehicle repair 18 June 2026
SILENCE BETWEEN SIRENS CIC Education & training, Health practitioners 10 June 2026
SMITH AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES LIMITED Motor vehicle repair 10 June 2026
HAN COURT SUNNY LIMITED Restaurants & cafes 8 June 2026
GJW PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LTD Property investment & letting 4 June 2026

Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Construction leads Barnstaple.

Every trade counted in Barnstaple over the last twelve months, busiest first. Construction took 44 of the 277, and the digital and professional family took 26% between them. 2 trades have enough volume here for a page of their own.

  • Building and trades
  • Digital and professional
  • Retail and food
  • Transport and logistics
  • People and care
  • Property
New company registrations in Barnstaple by trade. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to construction, the busiest trade here. The colour of the mark and the bar shows the trade family, listed above the table.
Trade Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
Building and trades. Construction 3 44
Property. Property investment & letting 4 33
Retail and food. Online retail 1 19
Digital and professional. Management consultancy 1 17
People and care. Health practitioners 0 13
Retail and food. Pubs & bars 2 12
Retail and food. Restaurants & cafes 0 12
Retail and food. Takeaways 1 11
Digital and professional. Architecture & engineering 1 10
Digital and professional. Advertising & design 1 8
Digital and professional. Business support services 1 8
Transport and logistics. Motor vehicle repair 0 8
Property. Property management 0 8
Building and trades. Plumbers & HVAC 0 7
Digital and professional. Web & software development 1 7
Digital and professional. Accounting 1 5
People and care. Cleaning services 1 5
Retail and food. Hairdressing & beauty 1 5
Digital and professional. IT consultancy 0 5
People and care. Care services 0 4
Retail and food. Catering & events 0 4
Digital and professional. Education & training 0 4
Building and trades. Electricians 1 4
People and care. Fitness 0 4
Digital and professional. IT support 1 4
Retail and food. Convenience stores 0 3
Transport and logistics. Taxi & private hire 0 3
Transport and logistics. Used car dealers 0 3
Transport and logistics. Freight & couriers 2 2
Digital and professional. Photography 1 2
Building and trades. Landscaping 0 1
Digital and professional. Recruitment 0 1
People and care. Security services 0 1
Barnstaple, all trades 24 277

A trade needs at least 30 new companies in Barnstaple over twelve months before it gets a page of its own, so the 31 trades below that line are listed without a link. A company carrying more than one SIC code can appear in more than one trade, so the rows add up to more than the number of companies behind them.

See all 39 trades across the UK · How the counts are made

Twelve months

March was the busiest month.

New companies registered to a Barnstaple address each month, across all 39 trades. The busiest month was March on 35. The quietest was November on 12.

New companies in Barnstaple, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 277 in total

Previous months August 2026

Small numbers move about. At this volume a quiet month and a busy month in the same year is normal, so read the twelve-month total before you read any single month.

2015 to 2026

How far back Barnstaple goes.

Companies registered to a Barnstaple address by year of incorporation, across all 39 trades, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New companies in Barnstaple, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 193 New companies in Barnstaple so far this year
Same months, 2025 125 Up 54% year on year
2025, the last full year 209 Against 67 in 2015

Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. The long view works through it in full.

Towns of a similar size

How Barnstaple compares.

New companies over the last twelve months in the towns closest to Barnstaple on volume. Barnstaple is number 334 of the 1,082 towns counted here.

Epping 281
Bexley 280
Shipley 280
BarnstapleThis page 277
Hoddesdon 275
Neath 271

See all 1,082 towns ranked

Once a month, every new company registered in Barnstaple. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.