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Refuse Dump, Sopers Bottom, Site B

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Refuse Dump, Sopers Bottom, Site B is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ludgershall, Wiltshire. It received household and commercial waste between 1948 and 1952, covering about 0.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD20700, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20700
Site nameRefuse Dump, Sopers Bottom, Site B
AddressAppleshaw, Hampshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 June 1948
Last waste input31 December 1952
Area0.78 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference431300, 149600

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

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.