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Historic landfill sites in Edenbridge, Kent

The Environment Agency records 10 historic landfill sites in and around Edenbridge, Kent. covering roughly 8 hectares in total. The largest is New House Farm at 1.76 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
New House Farm1.76 ha1975HouseholdCommercialInert
Land At Haxted Road1.27 haWaste types not recorded
Hever Road1.09 haInert
Beeches Farm0.86 haWaste types not recorded
Whitepost Wood0.74 ha1991IndustrialInert
Hever Road0.67 haInert
Hever Road0.61 haInert
Hever Road0.36 haInert
Green Meadow0.2 ha1992Inert
Colestock0.05 ha1975Waste 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 Edenbridge?
10 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Edenbridge 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 Edenbridge?
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.