Ministry of Defence Site
IndustrialHousehold
Ministry of Defence Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received industrial and household waste between 1940 and 1950, covering about 7.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD14123, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD14123 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ministry of Defence Site |
| Address | Barry, South Glamorganshire |
| Site operator | Ministry of Defence |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Area | 7.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South East CY |
| Grid reference | 314600, 167900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barry Docks Area ASpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Barry Docks Area A and BSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Barry Docks Area BIndustrial
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.