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Historic landfill sites in Horsham, West Sussex

The Environment Agency records 43 historic landfill sites in and around Horsham, West Sussex. covering roughly 155 hectares in total. The largest is Faygate Landfill Site at 25.46 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Faygate Landfill Site25.46 ha1994SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Capel Landfill Site15.84 ha1988Inert
Baynards Fullers Earth Pit12.53 ha1972IndustrialInert
Blackridge Lane10.98 ha1975Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
Clockhouse Brickworks9.94 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Auclaye Brickworks, Capel9.68 ha1986Inert
Baystone Farm8.69 ha1981Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Hop Oast Roundabout7.92 ha1988Inert
Reeds Lane6.81 ha—Liquid / sludge
Ewhurst Brickworks5.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Weston's Farm5.01 ha—Inert
Gleniffer Farm4.61 ha1988Inert
Vale Wood Lane4.35 ha1970Waste types not recorded
Easteds Farm4.01 ha1984Inert
Nowhurst Lane2.18 ha1985HouseholdCommercialInert
Historic landfill EAHLD358781.96 ha—Waste types not recorded
Itchingfield Disused Railway Cutting1.8 ha1983IndustrialInert
Warnham Brickworks Landfill Site1.71 ha1985Inert
Wooddale Lane1.58 ha1965HouseholdCommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting1.57 ha1986IndustrialInert
Reeds Lane1.47 ha1975Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Bridgehill Farm1.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Billingshurst Sewage Works1.3 ha1970Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
Hurstlands1.23 ha1991Inert
Nowhurst Lane1.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Marelands Farm1.14 ha1989Inert
Smither's Rough0.97 ha1980Inert
High Hurst Manor Farm0.82 ha1982IndustrialInert
Cutting at Tunnel Entrance0.79 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hard's Farm0.53 ha1970HouseholdCommercialInert
Gill House Farm0.42 ha1982Inert
Cow Wood0.2 ha—Inert
Cowfold Eastlands Farm0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Elmhurst Farm0.2 ha1982Inert
Home Farm Stud0.2 ha1970HouseholdCommercialInert
Plummers Plain0.2 ha1982Inert
Rusper Samcot0.2 ha1980Inert
Whitebreads Farm0.2 ha1988Inert
Bucks Green0.2 ha1962HouseholdCommercialInert
Lower Gages Farm0.2 ha1990Inert
Oakdale Farm0.2 ha1990Inert
Micklepage Farm0.08 ha1989Inert
Chesworth Farm & House0.07 ha1985IndustrialInert

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 Horsham?
43 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Horsham 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 Horsham?
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.