Historic landfill sites in Devizes, Wiltshire
The Environment Agency records 29 historic landfill sites in and around Devizes, Wiltshire. covering roughly 43 hectares in total. The largest is Iron Pear Tree Farm at 6.46 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Devizes (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Pear Tree Farm | 6.46 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Sand Ground | 5.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Wiltshire County Council Monument Hill Refuse Tip | 4.84 ha | 1984 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Witchcombe Hollow Landfill Site | 3.18 ha | — | Inert |
| Disused Clay Pit | 2.45 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Broadway | 2.43 ha | 1976 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Loiterton Farm | 2.23 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Black Dog Crossroads | 1.82 ha | 1975 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Furzehill Farm | 1.68 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Adjacent to Woodpeckers | 1.53 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Disused Railway Line Adjoining Park View Farm | 1.53 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Tinkersfield Farm | 1.38 ha | — | Industrial |
| Tinkfield Tip, WCC Monument Hill | 1.2 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Tinkfield Farm | 1.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Devizes, Old Railway Track | 0.85 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Clay Pit | 0.83 ha | 1984 | IndustrialInert |
| Cliffe Farm | 0.74 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Old Railway cutting | 0.7 ha | 1986 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cuckoo's Corner, Knights Leaze Farm | 0.47 ha | 1994 | SpecialInert |
| Front Garden at The Glen | 0.35 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Sainsburys Builders Tip | 0.32 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Easton Park Farm | 0.3 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Part Parcel No.133 to raise the level of land | 0.27 ha | 1984 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting adjoining Claironailes | 0.23 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Old Railway cutting | 0.16 ha | 1980 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Clay Pit | 0.12 ha | 1984 | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Cutting | 0.08 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Frieth Farm | 0.01 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Roundway Hospital | 0.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Devizes?
- 29 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Devizes town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Devizes?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.