Dorchester Rural District Council Tip
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Dorchester Rural District Council Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dorchester, Dorset. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1934, covering about 2 hectares. Reference EAHLD32193, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32193 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dorchester Rural District Council Tip |
| Address | Warmwell, Dorchester, Dorset |
| Site operator | Dorchester Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1934 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 375900, 87200 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Warmwell Sand and Gravel PitsIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Warmwell Quarry Part 2IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Ajoining 38 Moreton RoadInert
- Crossways Sports FieldInert
- The Scout GroundIndustrialInert
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.