Railway Cutting adjoining Claironailes
Inert
Railway Cutting adjoining Claironailes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Devizes, Wiltshire. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1981, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD09659, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09659 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting adjoining Claironailes |
| Address | Stert, Devizes, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C M Builders Limited / Messrs H T Gay and Company |
| Licence issued | 15 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 November 1976 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1981 |
| Area | 0.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 403400, 159300 |
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
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Tinkfield FarmWaste types not recorded
- Tinkersfield FarmIndustrial
- Wiltshire County Council Monument Hill Refuse TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Tinkfield Tip, WCC Monument HillIndustrialInert
- Cuckoo's Corner, Knights Leaze FarmSpecialInert
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.