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Historic landfill sites in Lymington, Hampshire

The Environment Agency records 18 historic landfill sites in and around Lymington, Hampshire. covering roughly 252 hectares in total. The largest is Manor Farm at 138.08 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Manor Farm138.08 haHouseholdCommercialInert
Efford27.29 haIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
HCC Pennington Marshes Site A18.01 haIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Pennington Marshes17.13 ha1969Commercial
Refuse Tip at Cobblers Corner8.67 haSpecialHouseholdCommercial
Land At Mount Pleasant Sway8.22 ha1994Inert
South Of A3377.13 haInert
Land At Mount Pleasant Lane6.82 haWaste types not recorded
Site of Limmer Trinidad Asphalt Works6.07 haInert
Manor Farm Eastern Extension5.71 haInert
Land At Pitmore Lane4.11 haInert
Newbridge Field1.9 haWaste types not recorded
East Of Bath Road1.26 haInert
Refuse Tip, Setley Tip Site B0.79 haSpecialHouseholdCommercial
Land Behind Old Church Hall0.56 haWaste types not recorded
Newlands Manor0.23 ha1990Inert
South Of A3370.16 ha1986IndustrialInert
Long Acres0.09 haInert

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 Lymington?
18 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Lymington 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 Lymington?
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.