Gravel Pit, Violet Farm, Corfe Mullen
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Gravel Pit, Violet Farm, Corfe Mullen is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1979 and 1990, covering about 1.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD08894, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08894 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gravel Pit, Violet Farm, Corfe Mullen |
| Address | Violet Farm, Corfe Mullen |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Harry J Palmer Broadstone Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 October 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 25 May 1990 |
| Area | 1.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 398800, 98000 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused Railway LineCommercial
- Ashington Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Woodside Stud FarmSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Henbury Plantation Gravel PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.