Landfill Check

Greendown Farm

Waste types not recorded

Greendown Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Buckfastleigh, Devon. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1984, covering about 88.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD08703, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08703
Site nameGreendown Farm
AddressWallaford Road, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Site operatorA J Booth and Company
Licence holderA J Booth and Company
Licence issued5 July 1984
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area88.21 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon SW
Grid reference270600, 66000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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.