Calne Refuse Tip
Commercial
Calne Refuse Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Calne, Wiltshire. It received commercial waste between 1958 and 1972, covering about 3.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD32199, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32199 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Calne Refuse Tip |
| Address | Sands Farm, Calne, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Calne and Chippenham Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1958 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 3.91 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 401700, 171500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sands Farm Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sands FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Calne SandpitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Borough Lands TipHousehold
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.