Cuckoo's Corner, Knights Leaze Farm
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Cuckoo's Corner, Knights Leaze Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Devizes, Wiltshire. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste between 1989 and 1994, covering about 0.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD08969, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08969 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cuckoo's Corner, Knights Leaze Farm |
| Address | Urchfont, Devizes, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | I and M Bodman |
| Licence issued | 17 February 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 April 1989 |
| Last waste input | 11 April 1994 |
| Area | 0.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 403700, 157500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Part Parcel No.133 to raise the level of landIndustrialCommercialInert
- Railway Cutting adjoining ClaironailesInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Tinkfield FarmWaste types not recorded
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.