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Historic landfill sites in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

The Environment Agency records 3 historic landfill sites in and around Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. covering roughly 10 hectares in total. The largest is Warboys Brick Pit at 8.18 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Warboys Brick Pit8.18 ha1980Waste types not recorded
Ramsey Heights1.63 ha1975Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Upwood Airfield0.32 ha1990Inert

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 Ramsey?
3 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Ramsey 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 Ramsey?
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.