Watchcombe Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Watchcombe Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Colyton, Devon. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1994 and 2011, covering about 2.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD35788, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35788 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Watchcombe Quarry |
| Address | Sutton Farm, Watchcombe, Devon |
| Site operator | Watchcombe Quarry |
| Licence holder | Kenneth Norman Voysey, Keith Mervyn Dare |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 August 2011 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon & Cornwall |
| Grid reference | 322100, 97500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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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.