Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Dartford, Kent

The Environment Agency records 121 historic landfill sites in and around Dartford, Kent. covering roughly 1,867 hectares in total. The largest is Hornchurch Airfield at 107.34 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Hornchurch Airfield107.34 ha1980IndustrialCommercialInert
Baldwins Farm Quarry98.82 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Baldwins Farm Quarry98.82 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Rainham Marshes91.85 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bush Farm88.6 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Littlebrook Power Station83.72 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Rainham Landfill81.6 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Manor Way54.39 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dolphin Estate52.81 ha—Inert
Ex-City of London Site48.04 ha1988HouseholdCommercialInert
Bent Marshall Site42.16 ha1968HouseholdCommercial
Moor Hall Farm41.51 ha1971CommercialInert
Sutton-At-Hone39.9 ha—CommercialInert
Gerpins Lane Civic Amenity36.97 ha1971Waste types not recorded
Gascoyne Drive36.11 ha1967IndustrialInert
Stone Pit No.135.89 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Rainham Quarry34.05 ha—Waste types not recorded
Eastbrookend Country Park32.27 ha1993Inert
Hunts Hill Farm29.98 ha1982IndustrialCommercialInert
Aveley No3 Cly Pit28.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Clay Pit No.128.3 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Scott and Albyns Farm26.68 ha1994HouseholdCommercialInert
East of Dovers Corner26.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sandy Lane24.09 ha—Waste types not recorded
Walkers Pit23.02 ha1991Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Aveley Court Sand22.52 ha1967IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hoveringham Gravel20.47 ha—Waste types not recorded
Great Sunnings Farm19.73 ha—SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Sandy Lane19.69 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Stone 4,5,619.64 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Spring Farm Landfill18.07 ha—Inert
Stone Pit 2 Inert Landfill17.79 ha1899Waste types not recorded
Stone Marshes17.36 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Clay Pit No.316.64 ha—Household
Willow Farm16.07 ha1971Waste types not recorded
Damyns Hall15.67 ha1970Waste types not recorded
Arnold's Field14.32 ha1965HouseholdInert
Hoveringham Gravel13.91 ha1960Waste types not recorded
North West Crayford Marshes13.39 ha—Inert
Marley Quarry12.32 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
East Side New Road11.58 ha1968Household
Aveley No.211.39 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Baldwins Quarry10.74 ha1988Inert
Rainham Road Depot - Cardrome10.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dagenham Dock9.59 ha1990SpecialIndustrial
Marley Pit9.47 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Stone Marshes9.33 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Willow Farm9.09 ha1971IndustrialInert
Salamons Way Industrial Area8.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Moor Hall Farm7.86 ha1972HouseholdCommercial
Hoveringham Gravel7.81 ha1984HouseholdCommercialInert
Harwood Hall7.53 ha1984Industrial
Ford Motor Company, Mudlands7.44 ha—Inert
Kennett Road7.03 ha1960IndustrialInert
Little Gerpins Lane6.95 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitehall Lane6.41 ha1967Waste types not recorded
Mardyke Meadows6.3 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Park Lane5.84 ha1975IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Baldwins Farm5.82 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Craydene Road5.39 ha1967Waste types not recorded
Aveley Bypass5.35 ha1978IndustrialCommercialInert
Willow Farm5.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Myrtle Close5.07 ha1957SpecialIndustrialInert
Gravel Workings4.89 ha1984CommercialInert
Colyers Lane4.84 ha1967SpecialIndustrialInert
Leycroft Gardens4.7 ha1965IndustrialInert
Stone Marshes4.56 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Powdermill Lane4.5 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Stone Marshes4.35 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Ford Motor Company Settling Lagoons4.29 ha1985Waste types not recorded
Craylands4.25 ha1991IndustrialHouseholdInert
North Side of Stifford Road4.14 ha1972IndustrialHouseholdInert
Heath Lane4.13 ha1969HouseholdCommercialInert
Littlebrook D Power Station4.01 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Land adjacent to Bush Farm4 ha1971HouseholdCommercialInert
Old Mill Farm3.81 ha—CommercialInert
Rainham Road Depot - Cardrome3.7 ha—Waste types not recorded
School Marsh3.67 ha1986Inert
South East of Love Lane3.58 ha1972IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hornchurch Airfield3.55 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dale View3.38 ha1967HouseholdCommercialInert
Gore Road3.27 ha1982Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
Land adjacent to Moor Hall3.13 ha1966Household
Viaduct Terrace HK3.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
South Stifford Road2.98 ha1980IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Whitehall Lane2.86 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bridge Road2.83 ha1965SpecialIndustrialInert
Bretons Farm2.81 ha1987Inert
Costain Land2.7 ha—Waste types not recorded
West Side New Road A132.54 ha1985HouseholdCommercialInert
Back Lane2.52 ha1972IndustrialCommercial
Rainham Road South2.41 ha1986Commercial
Eastbrookend Cemetery2.35 ha1989SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Ferry Lane2.21 ha1993Waste types not recorded
Darenth Wood Road2.16 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Creek Works2 ha1999Inert
Camas Building Materials1.66 ha—Waste types not recorded
Marley Quarry1.57 ha—Inert
Moor Hall LFS1.49 ha—Commercial
Stanley Cottages1.49 ha1959HouseholdCommercialInert
Western End of Harrow Lodge1.48 ha1970Inert
Stifford Road1.41 ha—Industrial
Dagenham Slag Bank1.4 ha1984IndustrialInert
Wellcome Chemical1.21 ha1989SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Stone Marshes1.17 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Whybridge Close1.12 ha1950Waste types not recorded
Love Lane1.09 ha—Waste types not recorded
Edmund Road1.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Thames Cooling Ponds1.04 ha1988Inert
Twigg Close1.02 ha1959SpecialInert
Blackmans Close0.97 ha1969CommercialInert
Court Farm0.89 ha1972HouseholdInert
Moat Lane0.74 ha1952Inert
Wessex Drive0.58 ha1967SpecialIndustrialInert
Chesworth Close0.38 ha1975SpecialInert
Depot0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Powdermill Lane0.37 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Wennington0.2 ha—HouseholdCommercial
St Margaret Quarry0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pits 5 and 60.2 ha—Inert
Stonehouse Corner0.09 ha—Waste types not recorded

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 Dartford?
121 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Dartford 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 Dartford?
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.