Acton Quarries No.3
Inert
Acton Quarries No.3 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanage, Dorset. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 0.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD08917, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08917 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Acton Quarries No.3 |
| Address | Langton Matravers, Swanage, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The National Trust |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 November 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 May 1991 |
| Last waste input | 18 October 1993 |
| Area | 0.15 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 399000, 78200 |
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
- Acton Quarries No.2Inert
- Acton Quarries No.1Inert
- Gallows Gore QuarryIndustrialInert
- Downs QuarryIndustrialInert
- Gallow Gore Landers QuarryInert
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.