Historic landfill sites in Wimborne Minster, Dorset
The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Wimborne Minster, Dorset. covering roughly 79 hectares in total. The largest is Moortown Aerodrome Site, Magna Road at 47.42 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Wimborne Minster (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moortown Aerodrome Site, Magna Road | 47.42 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Whites Pit | 6.15 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Henbury Plantation Gravel Pit | 5.18 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Inverness Paper Mill | 4.27 ha | 1990 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Whites Pit / Arrowsmith Road Pit | 3.43 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Corporation Tip | 2.38 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Ashington Railway Cutting | 2.03 ha | 1992 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Gravel Pit, Violet Farm, Corfe Mullen | 1.69 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Disused Railway Line | 1.67 ha | 1972 | Commercial |
| Dullar Farm Chalk Pitt | 1.06 ha | — | Inert |
| St. Leonards Farm Corfe Mullen | 0.65 ha | — | Inert |
| North Bund Henbury Plantation Landfill | 0.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Screening Bund, Henbury Plantation | 0.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Brickpits opposite Holtwood Chapel | 0.55 ha | 1971 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bailey Gate Industrial Estate | 0.39 ha | 1992 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Bradford Barrow Chalk Pit | 0.28 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Woodside Stud Farm | 0.28 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Tarrant Rushton Airfield | 0.2 ha | 1981 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Mullock Farm Dairy | 0.2 ha | — | Inert |
| Furzehill Loggery | 0.05 ha | 1994 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
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 Wimborne Minster?
- 20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Wimborne Minster 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 Wimborne Minster?
- 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.