Landfill Check

Alwington

Waste types not recorded

Alwington is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bideford, Devon. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1993 and 2009, covering about 26.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD35678, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35678
Site nameAlwington
AddressBideford, Alwington, Devon
Site operatorAlwington
Licence holderAlwington
Licence issued5 April 1993
Licence surrendered13 July 2009
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area26.95 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon & Cornwall
Grid reference239100, 123200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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.