Disused Quarry
HouseholdInert
Disused Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chippenham, Wiltshire. It received household and inert waste between 1987 and 1990, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD09643, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09643 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Quarry |
| Address | Wood Barn Farm, Stanton, Chippenham, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Stanton District Council |
| Licence holder | Stanton District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 388700, 180300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hullavington TipLiquid / sludge
- Former North Wilts TipWaste types not recorded
- Grittleton Refuse TipWaste types not recorded
- Leigh Delamere Refuse TipIndustrialCommercial
- Former WCC TipHouseholdCommercialInert
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.