Poundbury
HouseholdCommercial
Poundbury is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dorchester, Dorset. It received household and commercial waste from 1987, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD34740, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34740 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Poundbury |
| Address | Dorchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 19 February 1987 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 368100, 90600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cokers FromeWaste types not recorded
- Winterborne HerringstoneWaste types not recorded
- Higher Burton FarmInert
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.