Higher Chillington
HouseholdInert
Higher Chillington is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilminster, Somerset. It received household and inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 0.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD08541, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08541 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Chillington |
| Address | Windwhistle, Chard, Illminster, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M J Cowling |
| Licence issued | 9 May 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 18 May 1989 |
| Last waste input | 26 November 1990 |
| Area | 0.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 338800, 110000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- High ChillingtonWaste types not recorded
- Windshistle GarageHouseholdInert
- Purtington House FarmWaste types not recorded
- PurtingtonInert
- Tip Near CombeWaste types not recorded
- Elder CopseWaste types not recorded
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.