Historic landfill sites in Wadebridge, Cornwall
The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Wadebridge, Cornwall. covering roughly 42 hectares in total. The largest is Wadebridge Bypass at 6.61 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Wadebridge (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadebridge Bypass | 6.61 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Treworder | 3.88 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Recreation Ground | 3.37 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bodieve Farm B | 2.54 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| North of Old A39, Ball | 2.32 ha | — | Inert |
| Egloshayle | 2.27 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Trevilling Road | 2.23 ha | — | Inert |
| North Of Old A39 | 2.16 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Trevilling Road | 2.05 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Lemail Cutting | 1.98 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| West Park Farm | 1.96 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Show Ground | 1.95 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Estuary Adjacent Egloshayle | 1.83 ha | — | Household |
| Field Adjacent To Higher Lane A389 | 1.81 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Mulberry Down | 1.48 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bodieve Farm A | 1.2 ha | — | Inert |
| The Foundry | 1.12 ha | — | Inert |
| The Foundry | 0.43 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Above Town | 0.25 ha | — | Household |
| Dinham Farm | 0.2 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Pawton Farm | 0.18 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Above Town | 0.11 ha | — | Household |
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 Wadebridge?
- 22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Wadebridge 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 Wadebridge?
- 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.