Historic landfill sites in Leatherhead, Surrey
The Environment Agency records 17 historic landfill sites in and around Leatherhead, Surrey. covering roughly 40 hectares in total. The largest is Cobham Road at 16.64 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Leatherhead (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobham Road | 16.64 ha | 1995 | Inert |
| Greenfields Farm | 7.23 ha | — | Inert |
| Cherkley Croft | 3.74 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Leatherhead Landfill | 2.65 ha | 1974 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Sewage and Refuse Disposal Works | 2.04 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hospital Grounds | 1.87 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Newmarsh Farm | 1.86 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Land South of Guildford Road | 1.02 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Quarry Farm | 0.54 ha | 1972 | Inert |
| The Grange | 0.47 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Land to the rear of Hawkwood Rise | 0.43 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Quarry Gardens | 0.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Orestan Lane Landfill | 0.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Glen View | 0.3 ha | 1974 | IndustrialInert |
| Rectory Tip | 0.21 ha | 1971 | Waste types not recorded |
| Barnett Wood lane | 0.2 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| New Barn East | 0.2 ha | 1996 | 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 Leatherhead?
- 17 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead?
- 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.