Ruby Farm Landfill
IndustrialInert
Ruby Farm Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newton Abbot, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste from 1985, covering about 5.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD08791, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08791 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ruby Farm Landfill |
| Address | Abbotskerswell, Newton Abbot, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | F C and Mrs A Down |
| Licence issued | 25 January 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1985 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 285100, 68200 |
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
- AbbotskerwellIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stoneycombe QuarryInert
- AbbotskerswellCommercial
- Southholme FarmInert
- South QuarryHousehold
- Dainton QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.