The Foundry
Inert
The Foundry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wadebridge, Cornwall. It received inert waste between 1974 and 1993, covering about 0.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD08635, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08635 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Foundry |
| Address | Wadebridge, Cornwall |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Irons Brothers |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 9 February 1993 |
| Area | 0.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 198700, 73200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Trevilling RoadInert
- Trevilling RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Bodieve Farm BInert
- Recreation GroundWaste types not recorded
- North Of Old A39Inert
- Above TownHousehold
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.