Bosworgy Farm
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Bosworgy Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hayle, Cornwall. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1990 and 1992, covering about 0.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD07974, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07974 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bosworgy Farm |
| Address | Bosworgy Farm, Relubbus |
| Site operator | Michael Mudge |
| Licence holder | C Ellis |
| Licence issued | 19 April 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1990 |
| Last waste input | 21 April 1992 |
| Area | 0.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 157300, 33200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- TreganhorneInert
- Carn-A-BeggusInert
- No Man's LandLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- St Erth HillWaste types not recorded
- St Erth School QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.