Landfill Check

Railway Cutting

Waste types not recorded

Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lyme Regis, Dorset. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1992 and 2007, covering about 1.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD35591, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35591
Site nameRailway Cutting
AddressCannington Viaduct, Lyme Regis, Uplyme, Dorset
Site operatorPidgeon Ira Henry
Licence holderPidgeon Ira Henry
Licence issued27 October 1992
Licence surrendered23 April 2007
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.82 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon
Grid reference330755, 92215

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

Boundary map

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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.