Historic landfill sites in Egham, Surrey
The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Egham, Surrey. covering roughly 168 hectares in total. The largest is Kingsmead Quarry at 66.22 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Egham (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsmead Quarry | 66.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Feathers Lane | 13.78 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Muckhatch Farm | 13.18 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Longside | 11.43 ha | 1987 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Callow Hill Landfill | 9.29 ha | 1977 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Muckhatch Farm | 6.98 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Padd Farm | 6.54 ha | 1987 | Liquid / sludgeInert |
| Drinkwater Landfill Site | 6 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Lyne Lagoons | 5.49 ha | 1977 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Padd Farm | 5.39 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Kingsmead Quarry | 3.91 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Boniface Landfill aka Pondover Place | 3.81 ha | 1980 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Pit A Egham Experiment | 3.63 ha | — | Household |
| Hythe End Road (1) | 3.47 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Trumps Mill Lane | 3.44 ha | 1973 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeInert |
| Randalls Nursery | 1.87 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Burma Road Tip Site | 1.55 ha | 1978 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| The Sandpits | 0.69 ha | 1995 | Waste types not recorded |
| Wraysbury Road | 0.59 ha | — | Inert |
| Welley Road | 0.51 ha | 1959 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Land off Lyne Road | 0.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Station Road | 0.25 ha | 1939 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
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 Egham?
- 22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Egham 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 Egham?
- 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.