Taw Wharf
IndustrialInert
Taw Wharf is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnstaple, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste between 1916 and 1990, covering about 2.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD08738, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08738 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Taw Wharf |
| Address | Sticklepath, Barnstaple, Devon |
| Site operator | R Harris and Son Limited |
| Licence holder | R Harrison |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1916 |
| Last waste input | 24 May 1990 |
| Area | 2.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 255000, 132900 |
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
- Adjacent to Railway Sticklepath HillWaste types not recorded
- Woolaways Junction YardWaste types not recorded
- Wooleway's SiteWaste types not recorded
- Linden Close QuarryIndustrialInert
- Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
- Park School Railway CuttingInert
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.