Herniss Farm Landfill
Special
Herniss Farm Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penryn, Cornwall. It received special (hazardous) waste between 1994 and 2016, covering about 5.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD35989, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35989 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Herniss Farm Landfill |
| Address | Penryn,Longdowns,Cornwall |
| Site operator | Winn L I |
| Licence holder | Winn L I |
| Licence issued | 21 February 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 January 2016 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon and Cornwall |
| Grid reference | 173500, 33200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- LongdownsIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Herniss FarmIndustrialInert
- Trolvis QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Job's WaterCommercial
- Fox's BoatyardWaste types not recorded
- Job's WaterIndustrialInert
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.