Patrick Woodford MRICS FAAV 


Partner | Bridport, Poundbury - Burraton House

Patrick joined Symonds & Sampson in 2007, and is a Partner based primarily in our Bridport office with a client base covering Dorset, East Devon and further afield.

Patrick’s client base includes farmers, landowners, family trusts and charities as well as the public sector, and he specialises in acting for landowning charity clients. His principal areas of practice are the management of rural estates and mixed-use property portfolios, professional valuation (taxation, probate, lending and private sales/purchases), landlord & tenant, and rural planning and development. As an Expert Witness, Patrick’s court work encompasses property valuation, access and boundary disputes, matrimonial, family and agricultural tenancy matters. He has undertaken expert witness accreditation training through the RICS and is also an RICS Registered Valuer, a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers and a Member of the Agricultural Law Association.

Prior to joining the firm, Patrick attended the Royal Agricultural University. Most of his 30-year career as a land agent has been spent in Dorset, apart from an early spell in Oxfordshire and a period as a Director of a firm of Chartered Surveyors in Devon & Cornwall. He attended a post-graduate course in Environmental Management at Birkbeck College, University of London and in 2005, received the CAAV national award for the second highest examination results. Since then, he has served on the committee and as chairman of the Hants, Wilts & Dorset Agricultural Valuers' Association.

When not at work, you’ll find Patrick training and working his gundogs, gardening and occasionally fishing. On winter evenings he can be found captaining a local skittles team and helping with local village events.

01308 426922
pwoodford@symondsandsampson.co.uk