Landfill Check

Whipcott Canal

Inert

Whipcott Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wiveliscombe, Somerset. It received inert waste from 1993, covering about 0.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD08763, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08763
Site nameWhipcott Canal
AddressField No 0956, Land Adj To Canal, Whipcott, Holcombe Rogus, Devon
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderM J Phillips
Licence issued1 April 1993
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 April 1993
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.94 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon SW
Grid reference307100, 118500

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

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.