Historic landfill sites in Torpoint, Cornwall
The Environment Agency records 17 historic landfill sites in and around Torpoint, Cornwall. covering roughly 39 hectares in total. The largest is HMS Drake Recreation Ground at 7.53 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Torpoint (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Drake Recreation Ground | 7.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Weston Mill Playing Field | 6.24 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Millpool | 5.76 ha | 1986 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Weston Mill Lake North | 4.08 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Southdown Quarry | 3.24 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Effords Bridge | 3 ha | 1981 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Thanckes Park | 2.36 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| St Levan Road Recreation Ground | 1.94 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Recreation Ground St Levan Ground And Alexandra Road | 1.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thankes Park Tip No.2 | 0.69 ha | 1960 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Disused Railway Cutting | 0.66 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Dadbrook Farm | 0.49 ha | 1960 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Quarry Park Bottom | 0.39 ha | — | Inert |
| Antony Road Car Park | 0.33 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hazardous Stores Return Centre | 0.32 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Trevol Grove Play Area | 0.32 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Borough Quarry | 0.18 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
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 Torpoint?
- 17 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Torpoint 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 Torpoint?
- 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.