Historic landfill sites in Verwood, Dorset
The Environment Agency records 19 historic landfill sites in and around Verwood, Dorset. covering roughly 78 hectares in total. The largest is Chatsworth / Blue Haze Sandpits at 64.26 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Verwood (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatsworth / Blue Haze Sandpits | 64.26 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pit Copse Woodlands | 2.94 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Old Brickpits | 2.06 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Surplus Stores Pit landfill site | 1.38 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Long Acre Farm Woodlands | 1.25 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Mannington Farm | 1.12 ha | 1993 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Redmans Hill | 0.86 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Land at the Corner of B3081 and Verwood Road, Woodlands | 0.67 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Old Chalk Pit, North Farm | 0.57 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Wedge Hill Farm | 0.49 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Sewage Sludge Sorage Lagoons | 0.48 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Homeland Farm | 0.34 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Homeland Farm | 0.27 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Rosebank House, Verwood | 0.23 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Rosebank House | 0.22 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Ebblake landfill site | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Burwood Pit landfill site | 0.2 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| West Blagdon Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Matterley Drove Quarry | 0.2 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
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 Verwood?
- 19 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Verwood 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 Verwood?
- 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.