Landfill Check

Pawton Farm

IndustrialInert

Pawton Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wadebridge, Cornwall. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1996, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD08200, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08200
Site namePawton Farm
AddressPawton Farm, St Breock, Wadebridge, Cornwall
Site operatorT H Sandry
Licence holderMr A Smith
Licence issued17 May 1989
Licence surrendered1 April 1996
First waste input1 July 1989
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.18 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCornwall SW
Grid reference196500, 70500

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

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.