Thomson Hayton Winkley Solicitors & Legal Services is a prominent law firm and conveyancer with deep roots in Cumbria, offering specialized legal support for both individuals and businesses. With over 150 years of experience, the firm stands out for its comprehensive service range, deep regional knowledge, and dedicated focus on rural, agricultural, and tourism-related legal matters.
The firm takes a client-centered approach, emphasizing personalized service, commercial acumen, and cost-effective solutions without compromising on expertise. It serves a diverse clientele including families, farming businesses, hospitality operators, commercial enterprises, and rural landowners, with a particular strength in supporting the tourism and hospitality sectors vital to the Cumbrian economy.
Services Offered
- Residential Property: Buying and selling homes, leases, licenses and tenancies, registration and title issues, boundaries, rights and easements, transfers and gifts, equity release and remortgaging, jointly owned property, conveyancing
- Wills & Inheritance: Making and updating wills, Inheritance Tax planning, Powers of Attorney, trusts and planning, elderly client services, probate and estates, will and inheritance disputes, Court of Protection
- Farming & Rural: Buying and selling farms and land, access and rural land issues, agricultural landlord and tenant matters, rural and agribusiness, farming partnership agreements, wills and succession planning, farming reviews, rural tourism
- Dispute Resolution: Will and inheritance disputes, land and neighbour disputes, business and commercial disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, employment disputes, personal injury claims, consumer problems, professional negligence claims
- Divorce & Family: Divorce and separation, cohabitation issues, issues involving children, financial and property matters, prenuptial agreements, domestic abuse, alternatives to court, LGBTQ+ legal services
- Commercial Property: Commercial property and land, commercial leases and licenses, commercial property disputes, sector specialisms
- Business & Commercial: Start-up structure and support, business sales and restructures, employment services for business, agreements, contracts and terms
- Tourism & Hospitality: Tourism and hospitality property, employment and terms of business, planning for the future, licensing
Operating from four offices across South Lakes—including Kendal, Windermere, Kirkby Lonsdale, and the award-winning Rural Law Practice branch at J36 Rural Auction Centre—the firm serves clients throughout Cumbria, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and is consistently recognized for high levels of client satisfaction and professional recommendation.
