The Showground
Inert
The Showground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Honiton, Devon. It received inert waste between 1994 and 2002, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD08768, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08768 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Showground |
| Address | The Showground, Monkton Road, Honiton, Devon |
| Site operator | The Honiton and District Agricultural Association |
| Licence holder | The Honiton and District Agricultural Association |
| Licence issued | 24 March 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 March 2002 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 317000, 101300 |
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
- Colwell Wood Landfill SiteIndustrial
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.