Landfill Check

Park Farm

Inert

Park Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Corsham, Wiltshire. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 1.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD09026, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09026
Site namePark Farm
AddressBath Road, Atworth, Melksham, Wiltshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ H Jones and son
Licence issued9 May 1989
Licence surrendered26 February 1992
First waste input9 May 1989
Last waste input1 June 1991
Area1.58 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference385000, 167200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.