Landfill Check

Bawdenhayes Farm

IndustrialInert

Bawdenhayes Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crediton, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste from 1983, covering about 0.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD09302, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09302
Site nameBawdenhayes Farm
AddressSandford, Crediton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderG and S Cann
Licence issued4 July 1983
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input4 July 1983
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.93 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon SW
Grid reference282500, 103400

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.