Landfill Check

Coldborough Farm

Inert

Coldborough Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hungerford, West Berkshire. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1986, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD13244, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD13244
Site nameColdborough Farm
AddressEast Garston, Berkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued31 December 1974
Licence surrendered31 December 1986
First waste input1 January 1972
Last waste input31 December 1986
Area0.41 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWest TH
Grid reference435500, 177100

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.