Tarrant Rushton Airfield
IndustrialCommercialInert
Tarrant Rushton Airfield is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1947 and 1981, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD08874, 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 | EAHLD08874 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tarrant Rushton Airfield |
| Address | Blandford, Blandford, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Flight Refuelling Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 December 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 395100, 105300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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.