Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill Site
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Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnstaple, Devon. It received industrial and household waste between 1984 and 1992, covering about 23.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD08736, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08736 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill Site |
| Address | Barnstaple, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W Woolaways and Son |
| Licence issued | 21 August 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1984 |
| Last waste input | 1 August 1992 |
| Area | 23.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 255800, 132400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Woolaways Junction YardWaste types not recorded
- Park School Railway CuttingInert
- 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.