Crap Towns / Calne / Pollution incidents

How often does Calne get polluted?

15 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Calne or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 58th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 3 were major, the worst kind. The most recent came in August 2026 and put landfill odour in the air. Landfill odour turned up in 11 of them.

The bronze pigs are about the only things here that don't have to smell it.

The incidents
WhenWhatWhereImpact
August 2026Landfill odourIn the airMajor
July 2026Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
June 2026SmokeIn the airSignificant
June 2026Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
May 2026Landfill odourIn the airMajor
April 2026Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
April 2026Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
March 2026Landfill odourIn the airMajor
August 2025Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
July 2025Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
June 2025Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
May 2025Landfill odourIn the airSignificant
April 2025OdourIn the airSignificant
June 2024SmokeIn the airSignificant
April 2022SmokeIn the airSignificant
Nearby towns
TownDistanceSerious incidents since 2016
Calne–15
Swindon20.0 km12
Chippenham9.4 km8
Devizes9.6 km4
Trowbridge18.9 km4
Corsham13.8 km3
Marlborough18.3 km3
Melksham11.7 km3
Malmesbury18.2 km2
Royal Wootton Bassett13.5 km2