Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Oxted, Surrey

The Environment Agency records 21 historic landfill sites in and around Oxted, Surrey. covering roughly 89 hectares in total. The largest is Oxted Greystone Quarry at 31.44 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Oxted Greystone Quarry31.44 haInert
Oxted Quarry Landfill11.89 haWaste types not recorded
Crowhurst Brickworks10.45 haWaste types not recorded
Coney Hill Tip7.7 ha1988HouseholdCommercialInert
Old Hall Farm7.31 ha1974SpecialIndustrialInert
Crowhurst Brickworks4.36 ha1996IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cheverells Farm2.98 ha1978Inert
Coney Hill Sandpit2.75 haWaste types not recorded
Warren Barn Farm1.98 ha1977Inert
Heath Farm1.76 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Heath View1.23 ha1990Inert
Land South Of Postern Gate Farm1.12 ha1989Inert
Brills Farm0.82 ha1991Inert
Croydon Services Tip off Saltbox Hill0.58 haWaste types not recorded
Gas Holder Station0.57 haWaste types not recorded
Crowhurst Lane End0.57 haWaste types not recorded
Land South Of Postern Gate Farm0.56 ha1989Inert
Land Adjacent To Rose Cottage0.44 ha1992Inert
Field At Churchill Stud0.27 ha1991Inert
Broom Lodge Farm0.2 ha1979Inert
The Ghyll0.2 ha1981IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

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 Oxted?
21 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Oxted 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 Oxted?
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.