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Historic landfill sites in Daventry, West Northamptonshire

The Environment Agency records 43 historic landfill sites in and around Daventry, West Northamptonshire. covering roughly 170 hectares in total. The largest is Staverton Road Farm at 27.82 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Staverton Road Farm27.82 ha1991Inert
Cleves Farm20.22 ha1989Inert
Grove Farm19.88 ha1982SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Galliford Try Building Limited12.61 ha—Waste types not recorded
Byfield Road9.23 ha1979Inert
Dodmoor Farm7.41 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdInert
Drayton Fields Farm6.42 ha1989Inert
Kilsby Landfill ( Bx0792)6.15 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Grove Farm5.75 ha1982IndustrialInert
Elderstubbs Farm4.85 ha1972Inert
Dodmoor Farm4.27 ha1983Inert
Byfield No.24.09 ha1983Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
Grove Farm3.59 ha1986Inert
Daventry Sewage Works3.27 ha1960Inert
Dodford2.93 ha1980IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dodford Gravel Pit2.44 ha1990CommercialInert
A5 Diversion2.44 ha1992Inert
North Field Farm2.25 ha1985Inert
Elderstubbs Farm2.03 ha1986IndustrialInert
Fawsley1.87 ha1991HouseholdInert
A51.8 ha1987Inert
Disused Gravel Pit1.79 ha1985Inert
Braunston Cleeves1.52 ha1993Inert
Mill Farm1.28 ha1988Inert
Byfield1.26 ha1990Inert
North West Farm1.08 ha1988Inert
Byfield No.11.07 ha1983Liquid / sludgeInert
Byfield, Old Railway Cutting0.97 ha1990SpecialLiquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
Ashby St Ledgers0.97 ha1974Inert
Home Farm0.92 ha1989Inert
Manor Farm0.91 ha1986Inert
Whilton Lodge0.9 ha1985Inert
Newnham Turn0.78 ha1994Inert
Ashby Road0.78 ha1970Inert
Woodford Halse0.75 ha1988Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
Elderstubbs Farm0.71 ha1996Inert
Marley Field0.7 ha1986Inert
Field Adjoining A361 And Barby Road0.56 ha1991Inert
Grand Union Canal Landfill Site0.55 ha—IndustrialInert
Newnham Turn0.5 ha1973Inert
Dodford M1 Works0.45 ha1983Inert
Dodford Landfill0.34 ha—Waste types not recorded
Penguin Hotel0.12 ha1962Inert

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 Daventry?
43 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Daventry 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 Daventry?
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.