Lower Dodmore Wood
CommercialInert
Lower Dodmore Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lydney, Gloucestershire. It received commercial and inert waste between 1931 and 1994, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD27812, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27812 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower Dodmore Wood |
| Address | Lydney, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | The Trustees of the Lydney Settled Estate |
| Licence holder | The Trustees of Lydney Settled Estate |
| Licence issued | 18 October 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1931 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 362000, 203700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- White Cross SchoolInert
- North West Corner of SiteCommercialInert
- East MarshIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lydney Recreation TrustInert
- Allaston Grove SawmillsIndustrialInert
- Lydney Industrial SiteWaste 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.