Exwick Barton
IndustrialInert
Exwick Barton is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Exeter, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste between 1990 and 2002, covering about 1.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD09309, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09309 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Exwick Barton |
| Address | Exwick Barton Farm, St Andrews Road, Exwick, Exeter, Devon |
| Site operator | William John Baxter |
| Licence holder | William John Baxter |
| Licence issued | 23 February 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 April 2002 |
| First waste input | 1 May 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 289800, 94400 |
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
- Eastmonds TipWaste types not recorded
- Flowerpot Playing FieldWaste types not recorded
- Pynes Wate Treatment WorksInert
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.