Silverton Mills
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Silverton Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Exeter, Devon. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste from 1930, covering about 1.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD08811, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08811 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Silverton Mills |
| Address | Stoke Hill |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Reed and Smith Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1930 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 293800, 96500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Sleeman's Private TipWaste types not recorded
- MincinglakeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pinhoe Factory QuarryInert
- Pinhoe Factory Quarry / Westbrick SiteInert
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.