Landfill Check

Cockhill Farm

IndustrialInert

Cockhill Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Trowbridge, Wiltshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1992, covering about 1.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD08998, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08998
Site nameCockhill Farm
AddressTrowbridge, Wiltshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMessrs F J and A H J Painter
Licence issued31 July 1979
Licence surrendered16 October 1992
First waste input19 October 1979
Last waste input16 October 1992
Area1.83 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference384900, 159400

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.