Historic landfill sites in Godalming, Surrey
The Environment Agency records 18 historic landfill sites in and around Godalming, Surrey. covering roughly 39 hectares in total. The largest is The Colonel's Ground at 7.98 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Godalming (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colonel's Ground | 7.98 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Knowle Lane Landfill | 7.95 ha | 1979 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Nutbourne Brickworks | 6.04 ha | 1997 | Inert |
| Smithbrook Brickworks | 3.06 ha | 1982 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Ashtead Lane | 2.39 ha | 1978 | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Chalkpit Wood | 2.35 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land off Chalk Lane | 2.29 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Paddock Woods | 2.19 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Ridgley Road | 1.78 ha | — | Inert |
| Puttenham Hill | 0.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Oxenford Farm | 0.58 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Pumping Station | 0.39 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Windy Road | 0.35 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Milford Bypass Site B | 0.2 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| College Hill | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Cuckoo Corner - Unlicenced Highway Store | 0.2 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Milford By Pass Site A | 0.2 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Small Enton Lake | 0.11 ha | 1987 | Inert |
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 Godalming?
- 18 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Godalming 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 Godalming?
- 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.