Wooleway's Site
Waste types not recorded
Wooleway's Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnstaple, Devon. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1989, covering about 2.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD08846, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08846 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wooleway's Site |
| Address | Pottington Industrial Estate, Barnstaple |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W Woolaways and Son |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 May 1989 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 254800, 133700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Taw WharfIndustrialInert
- Adjacent to Railway Sticklepath HillWaste types not recorded
- Woolaways Junction YardWaste types not recorded
- Seven Brethren Bank Former Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
- Linden Close QuarryIndustrialInert
- Park School Railway CuttingInert
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.