Tinkfield Tip, WCC Monument Hill
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Tinkfield Tip, WCC Monument Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Devizes, Wiltshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1990 and 1992, covering about 1.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD09658, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09658 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tinkfield Tip, WCC Monument Hill |
| Address | WCC Monument Hill, Nursteed Road, Devizes, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | N E Grist - Wiltshire Waste Recycling Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 January 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 January 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 February 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 1.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 402100, 159900 |
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
- Wiltshire County Council Monument Hill Refuse TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Tinkersfield FarmIndustrial
- Tinkfield FarmWaste types not recorded
- Roundway HospitalWaste types not recorded
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Old Railway cuttingHouseholdCommercialInert
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.