Landfill Check

Bransbury Chalk Pit

IndustrialInert

Bransbury Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitchurch, Hampshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1974 and 1981, covering about 0.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD20630, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20630
Site nameBransbury Chalk Pit
AddressBarton Stacey, Hampshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHantscon Limited
Licence issued13 August 1974
Licence surrendered30 November 1981
First waste input31 July 1974
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.85 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference442200, 142000

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

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.