Bakers Pit
IndustrialInert
Bakers Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thatcham, West Berkshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1950 and 1980, covering about 0.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD10235, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10235 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bakers Pit |
| Address | Old Street, Hermitage, Thatcham, Berkshire, Berkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Percy Trentham |
| Licence issued | 26 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 0.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 449900, 173200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Newhouse Farm No.2Inert
- Newhouse Farm No.1IndustrialInert
- Worsham QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Copyhold Inert Recycling FacilityInert
- Barlows Wood YardIndustrialInert
- Brick and Tile WorksInert
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.