Ridgeway Farm
Inert
Ridgeway Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swindon, Swindon. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD15373, 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 | EAHLD15373 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ridgeway Farm |
| Address | Common Platt |
| Site operator | John O'Flynn Development Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 20 February 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 October 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 2 October 1990 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 411500, 187000 |
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
- Moredon Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Swindon Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Rodbourne Controlled TipSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Handy's FarmWaste types not recorded
- Pry FarmWaste types not recorded
- Sewage WorksWaste 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.