Landfill Check

Barford Cliff Chalk Pit

Waste types not recorded

Barford Cliff Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Salisbury, Wiltshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1994 and 2018, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD36046, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36046
Site nameBarford Cliff Chalk Pit
AddressBarford Lane,Downton,Salisbury,Wiltshire
Site operatorMidsummer Homes Ltd
Licence holderMidsummer Homes Ltd
Licence issued7 February 1994
Licence surrendered8 May 2018
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWessex
Grid reference419100, 122900

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.