Butser Hill Limeworks
IndustrialInert
Butser Hill Limeworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Petersfield, Hampshire. It received industrial and inert waste from 1974, covering about 5.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD20460, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20460 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Butser Hill Limeworks |
| Address | Butser Hill Limeworks, Near Jarvis Brook, Hadlow Down, Sussex |
| Site operator | George Ewen Limited |
| Licence holder | George Ewen Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 November 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 March 1974 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 472600, 120300 |
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
- Butser Hill Lime WorksWaste types not recorded
- Weston LaneWaste types not recorded
- Halls HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Halls HillHousehold
- Council Refuse TipWaste types not recorded
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.