Pound Bottom
IndustrialCommercial
Pound Bottom is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Emsworth, Hampshire. It received industrial and commercial waste in 1989, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD20125, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20125 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pound Bottom |
| Address | Rowlands Castle - Pound Bottom |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cleansing Services Group |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 474200, 110300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Clarkes DellInert
- Mayes Coppice FarmInert
- Blackbush HangerIndustrialCommercialInert
- Southleigh ForestCommercialInert
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.