Disused Railway Cutting, West Of Bath Road
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Disused Railway Cutting, West Of Bath Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1991, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD08895, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08895 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting, West Of Bath Road |
| Address | Bath Road, Sturminster Newton, Blandford Forum, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R B Snook Building Limited - Gillam and Snook Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 March 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 October 1991 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1980 |
| Last waste input | 16 October 1991 |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 378500, 114300 |
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
- Disused Railway Cutting West off Bath RoadIndustrialInert
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.