Football Ground
IndustrialInert
Football Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleford, Gloucestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 1994, covering about 1.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD27783, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27783 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Football Ground |
| Address | Chapel Hill B4228, English Bicknor, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M F Freeman Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 October 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 10 October 1992 |
| Last waste input | 2 February 1994 |
| Area | 1.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East CY |
| Grid reference | 357800, 214900 |
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.
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.