Historic landfill sites in Loddon, Norfolk
The Environment Agency records 11 historic landfill sites in and around Loddon, Norfolk. covering roughly 46 hectares in total. The largest is Mill Hill -Stone Road at 14.44 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Loddon (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill -Stone Road | 14.44 ha | 1989 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Wellbeck Road | 11.6 ha | 1983 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Damgate Lane | 10.78 ha | 1975 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Buckenham Woods | 3.84 ha | — | Household |
| South of Mill House | 2.17 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| West of end of Covey Lane | 1.02 ha | 1969 | IndustrialCommercial |
| Buckenham | 0.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Cantley Sugar Factory | 0.62 ha | — | Industrial |
| Buckenham Woods | 0.56 ha | 1991 | Liquid / sludge |
| South of Fen Farm | 0.32 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Off Mill Road | 0.01 ha | 1990 | IndustrialCommercial |
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 Loddon?
- 11 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Loddon 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 Loddon?
- 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.