Brickyard Plantation
IndustrialCommercialInert
Brickyard Plantation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melksham, Wiltshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD08972, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08972 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brickyard Plantation |
| Address | Brickyard Plantation, Sandridge Hill, Near Melksham, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence holder | Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1984 |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 393200, 164500 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Tip at Hack FarmWaste types not recorded
- Sahara SandpitsWaste types not recorded
- Sahara SandpitsIndustrialInert
- Sahara SandpitWaste types not recorded
- Forest FarmInert
- Bradford and Melksham Rural District Council Refuse TipHouseholdCommercial
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.