Penleigh Tips
HouseholdCommercialInert
Penleigh Tips is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westbury, Wiltshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1962 and 1977, covering about 0.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD09042, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09042 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Penleigh Tips |
| Address | Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wiltshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 16 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 June 1962 |
| Last waste input | 1 December 1977 |
| Area | 0.92 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 385300, 151000 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Fairwood RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lamberts Bridge FarmInert
- Effluent PondsIndustrialInert
- Field No 0095, Opposite Fairwood HouseInert
- Site Adjoining Railway StationInert
- Builders Tip at Slag LaneInert
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.