Chalwells
Industrial
Chalwells is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilfracombe, Devon. It received industrial waste between 1989 and 2009, covering about 2.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD36062, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36062 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chalwells |
| Address | Knowle,,Braunton,Devon |
| Site operator | Warwick Contractors ( South West ) Ltd |
| Licence holder | Warwick Contractors ( South West ) Ltd |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 September 2009 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon and Cornwall |
| Grid reference | 249100, 138900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- South Dean FarmIndustrialInert
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.