Land at East Lulworth
Liquid / sludgeInert
Land at East Lulworth is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wareham, Dorset. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1980 and 1993, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD15343, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15343 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at East Lulworth |
| Address | East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lulworth Castle Farms |
| Licence issued | 20 November 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 20 November 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 384600, 82000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Breach PitIndustrialCommercialInert
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.