Nursery House
IndustrialInert
Nursery House is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swindon, Swindon. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 1.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD13670, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13670 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Nursery House |
| Address | Plough Hill, Chiseldo |
| Site operator | Mr A O'Connell |
| Licence holder | A O'Connell |
| Licence issued | 18 January 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 November 1980 |
| First waste input | 1 June 1978 |
| Last waste input | 3 November 1980 |
| Area | 1.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 419200, 180700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- HillsIndustrial
- Parsonage FarmIndustrialInert
- Cowlease CopseInert
- Badbury BrickworksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Pinkcombe HouseWaste 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.