Pensworth Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Pensworth Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fordingbridge, Hampshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1976 and 2004, covering about 6.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD08982, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08982 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pensworth Farm |
| Address | Redlynch |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wiltshiredirect Services |
| Licence issued | 29 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 June 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 2004 |
| Area | 6.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 421100, 121200 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Barford Cliff Chalk PitWaste types not recorded
- Whiteparish Refuse TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.