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Flaxley Abbey Estate, Near Flaxley Abbey

CommercialInert

Flaxley Abbey Estate, Near Flaxley Abbey is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. It received commercial and inert waste from 1979, covering about 0.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD27910, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD27910
Site nameFlaxley Abbey Estate, Near Flaxley Abbey
AddressBlaisdon C.P., Flaxley, Gloucestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFlaxley Abbey Estate Limited
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1979
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.28 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Severn MI
Grid reference369300, 215100

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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.