Raythornes Landfill Site
Waste types not recorded
Raythornes Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Buckfastleigh, Devon. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1992 and 2015, covering about 0.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD35895, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35895 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Raythornes Landfill Site |
| Address | Buckfastleigh, Dean Prior, Devon |
| Site operator | South West Highways Ltd |
| Licence holder | South West Highways Ltd |
| Licence issued | 10 June 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 February 2015 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon and Cornwall |
| Grid reference | 274000, 64100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Dean QuarryIndustrialInert
- The LeatWaste 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.