Chapelton Sawmills
Industrial
Chapelton Sawmills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnstaple, Devon. It received industrial waste between 1985 and 1992, covering about 0.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD08731, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08731 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chapelton Sawmills |
| Address | Chapelton, Umberleigh, Devon |
| Site operator | Chapelton Sawmills Limited |
| Licence holder | Chapelton Sawmills Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 October 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 November 1985 |
| Last waste input | 15 May 1992 |
| Area | 0.35 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 258000, 126000 |
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.
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.