Park School Railway Cutting
Inert
Park School Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnstaple, Devon. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1982, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD08733, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08733 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Park School Railway Cutting |
| Address | Barnstaple, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Devon County Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 October 1980 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1982 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 256400, 131800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
- Woolaways Junction YardWaste types not recorded
- Adjacent to Railway Sticklepath HillWaste types not recorded
- Taw WharfIndustrialInert
- Linden Close QuarryIndustrialInert
- Wooleway's SiteWaste 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.