Historic landfill sites in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
The Environment Agency records 15 historic landfill sites in and around High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. covering roughly 25 hectares in total. The largest is Newmer Common at 4.96 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around High Wycombe (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newmer Common | 4.96 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Heath End Farm | 4.57 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Naphill Farm | 4.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sandwitch Wood | 2.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Kiln Road | 2.32 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sainsbury Homebase | 1.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Paper Mill | 1.11 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Walters Ash Minerals Workings South | 0.98 ha | 1965 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hughenden Valley | 0.93 ha | 1969 | Inert |
| Spring Gardens | 0.74 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Kingsmead Road | 0.72 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Adkins | 0.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Booker Brickpit | 0.29 ha | 1955 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Railway Cutting | 0.2 ha | 1978 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Highlea Avenue | 0.19 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 High Wycombe?
- 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe?
- 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.