Mapledurham Chalk Pit
HouseholdInert
Mapledurham Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Reading, Reading. It received household and inert waste between 1985 and 1988, covering about 0.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD13462, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13462 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mapledurham Chalk Pit |
| Address | Goring Road, Mapledurham, Reading |
| Site operator | Mr Avery |
| Licence holder | Mr Avery |
| Licence issued | 21 March 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 August 2005 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 0.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 467500, 178600 |
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
- Cane End FarmHouseholdInert
- Hook EndIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.