Old Clay Pit
IndustrialInert
Old Clay Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Devizes, Wiltshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1972 and 1984, covering about 0.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD08962, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08962 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Clay Pit |
| Address | Sells Green, Seend, Near Devizes, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | H T W Gay and Company |
| Licence issued | 10 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 June 1972 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1984 |
| Area | 0.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 395700, 162000 |
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
- Adjacent to WoodpeckersIndustrialInert
- Old Clay PitWaste types not recorded
- Disused Railway CuttingInert
- Loiterton FarmInert
- Bradley LaneLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- School RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.