Landfill Check

King's Farm

Inert

King's Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Axminster, Devon. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 4.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD08837, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08837
Site nameKing's Farm
AddressAxminster, Devon
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderColes Excavations Limited
Licence issued16 November 1991
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 June 1991
Last waste input15 November 1991
Area4.66 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon SW
Grid reference330400, 97000

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.