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Historic landfill sites in Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead

The Environment Agency records 39 historic landfill sites in and around Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead. covering roughly 128 hectares in total. The largest is Braywick Road at 26.83 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Braywick Road26.83 ha1980IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
D and H Reclamation21.19 ha1970IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Aysgarth Park9.73 ha1975IndustrialCommercialInert
Monkey Island Lane9.47 ha1991IndustrialInert
Strande Castle8.71 ha—Household
Monkey Island Marina7.33 ha1991Inert
Priors Way7.21 ha1969IndustrialCommercialInert
Cookham Tip6.57 ha1975IndustrialInert
Taplow Station3.52 ha1967Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Badnalls Pit3.44 ha1970IndustrialInert
Spencers Farm2.61 ha1991Inert
Weirbank2.42 ha1991Inert
Ludlow Road2.09 ha1970IndustrialInert
Stomp Road Landfill1.87 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hindhay Lane Pinkneys Green1.74 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cherry Garden1.74 ha1979IndustrialCommercialInert
Lent Rise Coal Yard1.65 ha1959SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Curls Lane1.5 ha1959Inert
Lake End Road0.65 ha1968IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Lake End Road0.64 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Priors Way0.63 ha1969IndustrialCommercialInert
Chiltern View Landfill0.62 ha—Waste types not recorded
Langton Close0.52 ha1960Inert
Cherry Garden0.51 ha1987Inert
Cricket Pavillion0.49 ha1990HouseholdCommercialInert
Linden Avenue0.45 ha1960Inert
Tockley Road Landfill0.44 ha—Waste types not recorded
White Ladyes Cookham0.44 ha—Inert
Weirbank Stud Farm0.36 ha1991Inert
Bray Court Hotel0.33 ha1959IndustrialCommercialInert
Whyte Ladyes Lane0.32 ha1975Inert
Lent Rise Road Landfill0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lillybrook Farm No.10.29 ha1990IndustrialCommercialInert
Copas0.25 ha1975IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Littlefield Green White Waltham0.22 ha1979Inert
Lent Rise Road0.18 ha—Waste types not recorded
Kiln Lane0.17 ha1967Household
Lillybrook Farm No.20.16 ha1987IndustrialCommercialInert
Weirbank Stud Farm0.08 ha1991Inert

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 Maidenhead?
39 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.