Farms & Estates

Our Farms and Estates team consists of a dedicated and skilled group of legal practitioners from farming backgrounds, with huge experience, both practical and professional, in farms and other land-based businesses.

farms and estates

Farms & Estates

The WBW Farms and Estates team know what it is like to run an owner managed business in the South West, what it is to earn a living from the land, and how hard it can be.

Our Farms and Estates team consists of a dedicated and skilled group of legal practitioners from farming backgrounds, with huge experience, both practical and professional, in farms and other land-based businesses.

Each team advisor will give you clear, effective advice and actions, openly priced and delivered with skill and energy, very much anchored on the “real world”.

We are good at what we do and enjoy the challenges of providing client focussed solutions. As a firm, we have been legal advisors to many farms and estates in the South West for over two hundred years.

Our Expertise

Our team of trusted and respected agricultural solicitors can support your business throughout its journey and beyond. Our services include:

  • Agricultural and farm business tenancy or agreements
  • Agricultural criminal defence
  • Commercial agreements
  • Disputes
  • Employment advice for those with farm workers
  • Equine
  • Farm mediation
  • Farm and land sales and purchases
  • Farming partnerships
  • Grazing agreements
  • Inheritance tax planning
  • Livery agreements
  • Property development
  • Renewables
  • Rights of way & diversion applications
  • Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)
  • Succession planning
  • Wills, tax and Trusts

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Ben Thomas at the Brixham office has always been helpful, supportive, and empathetic. He is a credit to your firm, and we would highly recommend his services.

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