A 276-year Wiltshire practice, founded in 1750 by William Salmon as an attorney in Devizes, run today from six offices across the South West. The Marlborough satellite at 7 Woodstock Court on Marlborough Business Park is four minutes off the second-widest High Street in Britain, with free on-site parking, every meeting room on the ground floor, and Anna Munro heading the commercial-property desk for the Pewsey, Ramsbury, Hungerford, Aldbourne, Burbage and Avebury catchment.
The Marlborough satellite at 7 Woodstock Court takes commercial property, residential conveyancing, family, employment, wills, probate and litigation matters for clients in Marlborough, Pewsey, Ramsbury, Hungerford, Burbage, Aldbourne and Avebury. Anna Munro runs the commercial-property desk in person from this office. The remaining lines are routed through the firm with the file allocated to one solicitor for the duration of the matter.
Freehold and leasehold purchase, sale, re-mortgage and transfer of equity across Marlborough, Pewsey, Ramsbury, Hungerford, Burbage, Aldbourne and Avebury. Conveyancing Quality Scheme accredited. New-build, Help to Buy, shared ownership all on the same desk. One dedicated lawyer per transaction and a free conveyancing app with 24/7 case access. Most matters in the Marlborough Mound to Big Belly Oak triangle close here without a referral to another office.
Anna Munro's desk at this office. Commercial leases, lease assignments, sale and purchase of land and commercial premises, mortgages and bridging finance, secured lending for South West regional banks. Recent matters include a former chicken-farm acquisition with planning for five dwellings, a Wiltshire listed-townhouse sale with a commercial element, a Harley Street medical-practice lease, and a leasehold portfolio for a Wiltshire engineering company.
Will drafting, lasting powers of attorney (property and affairs, health and welfare), grants of probate, full administration of estates, deeds of variation, lifetime gifts, inheritance-tax planning and trust work. The desk that has run from the wider firm since the eighteenth century, when the founder William Salmon was attorney to Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. Lexcel-accredited firm-wide.
Divorce and separation, financial settlements including pension sharing, child arrangements, civil-partnership dissolution, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The firm is a member of Resolution, the family-law association whose code of practice prioritises constructive resolution over confrontation. Collaborative-law route available where mediation suits the matter.
Settlement agreements, exit negotiations, employment contracts, redundancy, disciplinary and grievance, Tribunal advocacy through to High Court where the matter sits there. Both sides of the room: Wiltshire employers (handbooks, restructures, defended claims) and Wiltshire employees (compromise, unfair dismissal, discrimination, settlement agreements).
Commercial litigation, contract disputes, professional negligence, contested probate, debt recovery, landlord and tenant disputes, partnership disputes. Acts in mediation and at trial in the High Court and County Court, with the wider firm's eleven-partner litigation and contentious-probate desks supporting the Marlborough matters that need it.
When William Salmon first practised in 1750, George II was on the throne, the British Empire had not yet lost the American colonies, and Adam Smith had not yet written The Wealth of Nations. The town of Devizes the firm opened in was a market town on the Kennet and Avon corridor, eighteen miles south-west of where the Marlborough satellite now sits. By 1788 the founder's son William Salmon II had built the practice into the owner of Urchfont Manor and 4,000 acres, and had co-founded the first bank in Devizes on St John's Street. The firm's first notable client was Henry Addington, who became 1st Viscount Sidmouth and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804.
The years since have run through the firm's records as a continuous thread. Three Salmons (the founder, his son, and the third William Wroughton Salmon who sold the Castle to his banking partner in 1828 and moved to London). Then the partners William Edward Tugwell and Alexander Grant Meek. Then the Jackson family, who from 1865 provided a partner for nearly ninety years. Then the Awdrys, when Henry Awdry became a partner of Jackson & Awdry in 1949 and his son Tony Awdry renamed the firm to Awdry Bailey & Douglas in 1987. Then the 2023 rebrand to Awdry Law, when the firm became Awdry Law LLP at Companies House under number OC434696, a modern legal envelope around a 276-year practice.
The Marlborough satellite at 7 Woodstock Court, on Blenheim Road on Marlborough Business Park, is one of six offices the firm grew to over the late twentieth century. It is the only one of the six that trades from a business park rather than a town-centre street: the trade-off is free on-site parking for every client and ground-floor access to every meeting room, both of which the High Street offices cannot offer. Today the office is run by Anna Munro on the commercial-property desk, and the conveyancing, family, wills, probate and employment work routes through the wider firm under the same SRA recognised-body authorisation, SRA 815122.
Joined Awdry Law in 2018 after a decade at another firm. Qualified as a Solicitor in the Commercial department in February 2021 at the Marlborough office. Acts on commercial leases, sale and purchase of land and commercial property, lease assignments, mortgages and bridging finance, and the more complex residential property work the Marlborough catchment generates. A former professional horse rider and instructor, twice competed at national dressage championships. The catchment served from this desk is the agricultural and equestrian Wiltshire that the town-centre offices of London-orbit firms do not naturally route to: Pewsey Vale farmsteads, Ramsbury and Aldbourne smallholdings, Hungerford commercial leases on the western edge of the A4, Burbage and Avebury conservation-area transactions, Marlborough High Street commercial premises where the listed-building status complicates the lease.
The High Street, after the fire of 1653. Widened to its present width during the post-Great-Fire rebuilding, when the medieval Tudor timber gave way to fire-brick and timber listed buildings. Almost 300 listed buildings line the High Street today.
Marlborough College, Bath Road. The footbridge over the A4 connects the College grounds to the side where the Marlborough Mound stands. The Mound is a Neolithic monumental earthwork dated to circa 2400 BC, 19m tall, second in height only to Silbury Hill.
The Big Belly Oak, Savernake Forest. On the A346 south-east of the office. 1,000 to 1,100 years old, an 11-metre girth, named one of fifty Great British Trees for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002. The Forest itself is the only privately-owned forest in England.
A short enquiry form for an initial response by telephone or email from the Marlborough office. Once we understand the matter we can quote a fixed fee where the work supports it (residential conveyancing, straightforward probate) or hourly with an estimated total where it does not (commercial property, litigation, complex private client). The first conversation with the supervising solicitor is at no charge, in person at Woodstock Court if that suits, by video call if it does not.
The Marlborough office sits on Marlborough Business Park on Blenheim Road, just off the A346 Salisbury Road and a short drive from the High Street. Every meeting room is on the ground floor. Local bus routes stop near Blenheim Road. From the M4 (junction 15 at Swindon) the drive is about 18 minutes south on the A346.
7 Woodstock Court, Blenheim Road
Marlborough, Wiltshire
SN8 4AN
Yes. 7 Woodstock Court sits on Marlborough Business Park, four minutes off the A346 (the Salisbury Road) and a short drive from Marlborough High Street itself. Free on-site parking is available for every client, which the High Street and the other five Awdry offices cannot offer. Local bus routes stop near Blenheim Road. All meeting rooms are on the ground floor. From Hungerford, you are 12 minutes; from Pewsey, 14; from Ramsbury, 9; from Aldbourne, 11. From the M4 (junction 15 at Swindon) the drive is about 18 minutes south on the A346.
Yes. William Salmon began his professional life as a young attorney in Devizes around 1750, and the practice that became Awdry Law has run continuously from Wiltshire since. To put that in context: the firm took its first instructions twenty-six years before the American Declaration of Independence, forty years before the death of Adam Smith, sixty-five years before the Battle of Waterloo, and 257 years before the Solicitors Regulation Authority itself was formed in 2007. The modern legal envelope (Awdry Law LLP, Companies House OC434696, SRA recognised body 815122 since March 2021, the 2023 rebrand from Awdry Bailey & Douglas) sits around a practice that has been taking instructions in Wiltshire for 276 years.
For commercial property and complex residential work the Marlborough desk is run by Anna Munro, Senior Associate Solicitor (anna.munro@awdry.law, 01672 518 620). Anna joined Awdry in 2018, qualified at this office in February 2021, and acts on commercial leases, lease assignments, the sale and purchase of land and commercial premises, mortgages and bridging finance, and the more complex residential work the Marlborough catchment generates. For conveyancing, wills and probate, family or employment matters the Marlborough office takes the enquiry on 01672 518 620, allocates it to the right solicitor in the wider firm, and the file follows the matter. One dedicated lawyer per matter, never passed between paralegals.
For residential conveyancing, every quote names the legal fee, the searches, the Land Registry fee, the SDLT fee, the CHAPS charge and any leasehold-management charges in writing on day one. No hidden disbursements. For straightforward probate, a fixed fee is available. For more complex estates (foreign assets, contested wills, deeds of variation, agricultural-property relief, business-property relief, common in our Pewsey Vale and Aldbourne catchments) a fixed-fee quote follows a no-charge initial conversation with the supervising solicitor.
Yes. The Marlborough office is positioned for the wider agricultural and equestrian catchment, not just the town. The natural conveyancing run is the Marlborough Mound to Savernake Forest triangle: Pewsey Vale farms, Ramsbury smallholdings, Hungerford commercial properties on the western edge of the A4, Aldbourne and Burbage village transactions, Avebury and Beckhampton conservation-area work. The Marlborough catchment was chosen for the satellite for this reason: most of these villages are inside half an hour of the Business Park, where the High Street offices of London-orbit firms are forty minutes away or more.