How many former landfill sites are there in Battle?

25 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Battle town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.

How do I check a specific address in Battle?

Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Historic landfill sites in Battle, East Sussex

Name: EA Historic Landfill Sites
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence

The Environment Agency records 25 historic landfill sites in and around Battle, East Sussex. covering roughly 18 hectares in total. The largest is Branshill Farm at 5.84 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Battle (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

Site	Area	Last input	Waste types
Branshill Farm	5.84 ha	1989	Inert
Mountfield	4.24 ha	1993	Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
British Gypsum2	2.93 ha	1994	Industrial
British Gypsum1	1.06 ha	1992	Industrial
Quarry Farm	0.38 ha	1988	Inert
British Rail Car Park	0.21 ha	1943	HouseholdCommercial
New Cut Woods	0.2 ha	1955	HouseholdCommercial
Bodiam - Hurst Green Road	0.2 ha	1955	HouseholdCommercial
Templewood	0.2 ha	1974	Waste types not recorded
Walters Farm	0.2 ha	1974	Inert
Junction of Solomon's Lane and Eatenden Lane	0.2 ha	1959	HouseholdCommercial
North of Fayre Meadow	0.2 ha	1990	Inert
Marley Lane	0.2 ha	1986	IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Walters Oast	0.2 ha	1992	Inert
Swiftden Farm	0.2 ha	1992	IndustrialInert
Borders Farm	0.2 ha	1929	HouseholdCommercial
Hazelwood, Cripps Corner	0.2 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Driftways Farm	0.2 ha	1992	Inert
Home Farm	0.2 ha	1969	HouseholdCommercial
Stonehouse Farm	0.2 ha	1974	IndustrialInert
Brockham Cottage	0.2 ha	1991	IndustrialHouseholdInert
St John's Cross	0.15 ha	1990	Inert
Beech Farm	0.11 ha	1960	Inert
Hasting Road	0.08 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Bugsell Mill Farm	0.05 ha	1969	HouseholdCommercial

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Battle?: 25 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Battle town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Battle?: Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.