Folly Farm Landfill Site
Inert
Folly Farm Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. It received inert waste between 1990 and 2003, covering about 12.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD09021, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09021 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Folly Farm Landfill Site |
| Address | Folly Farm, Ballads Ash, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Crapper and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Crapper and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 May 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 March 2003 |
| First waste input | 4 May 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 12.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 406300, 184100 |
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
- The GablesInert
- Ballards Ash FarmInert
- Land At Greenhill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hookers Gate FarmIndustrialInert
- Old Park Farm, Old Brick worksWaste types not recorded
- Land At Greenhill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.