Disused Railway Cutting
Inert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melksham, Wiltshire. It received inert waste between 1974 and 1977, covering about 0.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD09841, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09841 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Sells Green, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cleansing Service Group |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1974 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1977 |
| Area | 0.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 395200, 162100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Clay PitWaste types not recorded
- Adjacent to WoodpeckersIndustrialInert
- Old Clay PitIndustrialInert
- Loiterton FarmInert
- Bradley LaneLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- School RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.