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Historic landfill sites in Redruth, Cornwall

The Environment Agency records 46 historic landfill sites in and around Redruth, Cornwall. covering roughly 43 hectares in total. The largest is Polhigey Moor at 5.68 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Redruth (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Polhigey Moor5.68 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Pound Caravan Site2.92 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Goongumpas2.26 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Boscarn2.22 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Piece2.08 ha—Household
Marriots Shaft Area2.07 ha1970IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tresemable Moor2.06 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tregajorran1.92 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Higher Penwartha Farm1.85 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wheal Briggan, North Downs1.83 ha1993IndustrialCommercialInert
Jalna Calvadnack1.61 ha1992IndustrialHousehold
Adjacent To Rugby Ground1.18 ha—Inert
Menagissey1.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mithian Railway Cutting0.98 ha1989IndustrialInert
Higher Carnkie0.94 ha1969IndustrialInert
South Wheal Frances0.91 ha1966IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Goldcentre0.9 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tregajorran0.76 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Chacewater0.7 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Little Beside0.66 ha1990IndustrialInert
Higher Bal0.61 ha—Waste types not recorded
Blackwater Garage0.55 ha—Waste types not recorded
Navvy Pit0.53 ha1990IndustrialInert
Wheal Harmony0.53 ha1959IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
West Trefula Farm0.5 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land At Tresevern Croft0.49 ha—Industrial
Penhalvean0.48 ha—Household
Penhalvean, Stithians0.48 ha—Inert
Monterose0.48 ha1993IndustrialInert
Railway Cutting between Gollawater and Mithian0.44 ha—Inert
Carnmarth0.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Railway Cutting, Perrancoombe0.34 ha1992IndustrialInert
Gilly Farm0.33 ha—Waste types not recorded
Former Railway Cutting0.32 ha—Commercial
Radnor Golf Course0.31 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pound Caravan Site0.29 ha—Waste types not recorded
South Trefulla0.26 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Green Lane Farm0.24 ha1994Waste types not recorded
Dairy Farm0.2 ha1994Inert
Channel View Farm0.19 ha—SpecialIndustrialInert
Polrose Farm, Kerley0.16 ha1993Inert
Waycroft Railway Cutting0.14 ha—Inert
Lancarrow Farm0.11 ha1990Inert
Iron Foundry0.1 ha1991IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Wheal Tye0.1 ha—Waste types not recorded
High View Farm0.08 ha1993IndustrialInert

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 Redruth?
46 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Redruth 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 Redruth?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.