Purtington
Inert
Purtington is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilminster, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 1.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD34067, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34067 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Purtington |
| Address | Chard |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Somerset County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 6 April 1990 |
| Area | 1.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 338900, 108700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Purtington House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Windshistle GarageHouseholdInert
- Higher ChillingtonHouseholdInert
- High ChillingtonWaste types not recorded
- Tip Near CombeWaste types not recorded
- Limekiln LaneWaste types not recorded
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.