The Old Chalk Pit
Inert
The Old Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near New Alresford, Hampshire. It received inert waste from 1981, covering about 0.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD20588, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20588 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Old Chalk Pit |
| Address | Brookwood Dean, Alresford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C F Freeman Charlton Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 May 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.28 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 463000, 126900 |
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
- Land At Woodlands FarmInert
- West Meon Railway TunnelInert
- Little Headdon FarmCommercialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingInert
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.