Historic landfill sites in Guildford, Surrey
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Guildford, Surrey. covering roughly 61 hectares in total. The largest is Stoke Park Farm at 13.05 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Guildford (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke Park Farm | 13.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodhills Sandpit | 7.89 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bramley Civic Amenity Site | 6.46 ha | — | Household |
| Land between Whitmoor Road and Burdenshott Road | 5.91 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Land at Fox Corner | 4.62 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Keens Lane | 1.93 ha | — | Industrial |
| The Old Claypits, Sherebourne Brickworks | 1.83 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Slyfield Emergency Landfill site | 1.78 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bookhurst Brickworks | 1.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whipley Farm | 1.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Brickyard | 1.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Prospect Farm | 1.66 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Manfield Brickworks | 1.45 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Clandon Park Chalkpit | 1.42 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Clasford Farm | 1.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Greywaters | 1.02 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Barnett Farm | 0.98 ha | — | Inert |
| Will O Wisp Mobile Home Park | 0.86 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Colemans Yard | 0.83 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Land Burdenshott Road | 0.81 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Hatchlands Chalk Pit | 0.73 ha | 1997 | Inert |
| Hurtwood Tip | 0.28 ha | 1990 | SpecialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Quarry | 0.28 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Slyfield | 0.2 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 Guildford?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Guildford 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 Guildford?
- 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.