Windshistle Garage
HouseholdInert
Windshistle Garage is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilminster, Somerset. It received household and inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD08532, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08532 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Windshistle Garage |
| Address | Cricket St. George, Chard, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | BMM Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 July 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 5 April 1990 |
| Area | 0.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 338700, 109800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Higher ChillingtonHouseholdInert
- High ChillingtonWaste types not recorded
- Purtington House FarmWaste types not recorded
- PurtingtonInert
- Tip Near CombeWaste types not recorded
- Windwhistle and CudworthIndustrialInert
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.