Historic landfill sites in Cricklade, Wiltshire
The Environment Agency records 16 historic landfill sites in and around Cricklade, Wiltshire. covering roughly 160 hectares in total. The largest is Cleveland Farm Quarry at 140.47 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Cricklade (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Farm Quarry | 140.47 ha | — | Industrial |
| Lake 7 | 11.67 ha | — | Inert |
| Lake 14 | 4.28 ha | 1980 | HouseholdInert |
| Bance Canal Tip | 0.79 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Blakehill Sewage Works (Disused) | 0.32 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Manor Farm Down | 0.27 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Tip At Garden and Canal | 0.2 ha | — | Inert |
| Land At Tadpole Bridge | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ballickacre Farm / Broad Leaze Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Handy's Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tip At Ashton Keynes | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The old canal B4040 | 0.2 ha | — | Inert |
| North Wilts No.3 | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Quarry Farm | 0.1 ha | 1970 | Inert |
| Pry Farm | 0.1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodwards Bridge Farm | 0.07 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Cricklade?
- 16 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Cricklade town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Cricklade?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.