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Historic landfill sites in St Columb Major, Cornwall

The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around St Columb Major, Cornwall. covering roughly 95 hectares in total. The largest is Spirit of the West at 21.22 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around St Columb Major (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Spirit of the West21.22 ha1990Waste types not recorded
Trewinnion and Bosallow Farms20.91 ha1992Inert
Penrose Farm9.12 ha—Inert
The Kelliers7.94 ha—Waste types not recorded
Trefullock Moor5.93 ha—Inert
Deeptye5.8 ha1993IndustrialInert
Tredinnick Quarry5.37 ha—Inert
Belowda3.92 ha1998Inert
St Eval2.16 ha1995Waste types not recorded
Vercoe2.14 ha1955HouseholdCommercial
Trefullock Moor2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Chypraze Farm Landfill1.27 ha—Inert
Little Bryn1.21 ha—Household
South Of A300.96 ha1990Waste types not recorded
Trekenning0.82 ha—Inert
Royalton Farm, Blackacre0.78 ha1993Waste types not recorded
St Jidgey0.73 ha1970IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Killaworgie Mill0.62 ha1990HouseholdCommercialInert
Trevarren Tip - Roydene0.4 ha1970IndustrialCommercialInert
Terras Mill0.34 ha—HouseholdCommercialInert
Dump Hill0.32 ha1950IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Glebe Farm0.26 ha1996Commercial
Little Halveor0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Trefullock New Road0.2 ha1989IndustrialInert
Deep Tyre Farm0.2 ha1991IndustrialInert
Tregamere Barton0.19 ha1992HouseholdInert
Snellgate Brickworks0.14 ha1989Inert

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 St Columb Major?
27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of St Columb Major 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 St Columb Major?
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.