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Historic landfill sites in Romsey, Hampshire

The Environment Agency records 63 historic landfill sites in and around Romsey, Hampshire. covering roughly 202 hectares in total. The largest is Bunny Lane Landfill Site at 30.38 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Bunny Lane Landfill Site30.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Timsbury Manor Farm19.9 ha—Industrial
Casbrook Common12.32 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Mill Farm8.4 ha—Inert
Timsbury Manor Farm8.33 ha—Inert
Cranford Farm8.22 ha—Inert
Sand Pit South of Hoe Lane7.31 ha1982Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land At Bunny Lane6.8 ha—Inert
Land At Wynford Farm6.27 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Carters Clay5.43 ha—Waste types not recorded
Warren Farm5.35 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Hunts Farm5.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Former Sand Pit5 ha—Inert
Woodington Sandpit4.69 ha—Inert
Lee Pit4.22 ha—IndustrialInert
Test Road Materials4.18 ha—Inert
Land At Carters Clay4.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
New Road4.07 ha1992Inert
Timsbury Sand Pit3.95 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Lye Farm3.8 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bunny Lane Sand Pit3.72 ha—SpecialInert
Land Adjacent to Bunny Lane3.63 ha—Industrial
Birchwood House Farm3.4 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Disused Sand Pit At Bunny Lane3.02 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land At Wynford Farm2.07 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land Adjacent to A272.03 ha—Inert
Sedbury1.61 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cowleas Copse1.47 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sand Pit South of Hoe Lane1.47 ha—Inert
Greenhill Farm1.46 ha1987Waste types not recorded
Cupernham Lane1.41 ha—IndustrialInert
Brambleside Sandpit1.35 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Hunts Farm1.34 ha1983IndustrialHouseholdInert
Yew Tree Cottage1.34 ha—Industrial
Tip at Giles Lane1.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
Glen Eyre1.17 ha—Waste types not recorded
New Road1.17 ha1994IndustrialInert
Riverside Nursery1.15 ha—Inert
Roundabouts Copse1.06 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Slurry Pit0.9 ha1994Inert
The Sandpit, Giles Lane Industrial Estate0.84 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land At Hammonds Farm0.8 ha—Inert
Botley Road - A270.74 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land On Lockerley Hall Estate Site A0.71 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjacent to the A270.58 ha—Inert
Hammonds Farm0.54 ha—Inert
Yew Tree Pit0.52 ha—IndustrialInert
East End Farm0.39 ha—SpecialLiquid / sludge
Manor Farm0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pound Farm A0.28 ha—Waste types not recorded
Nursery Farm0.27 ha—IndustrialInert
Lower Cowesfield Farm0.25 ha1971HouseholdCommercial
Former Pit To The North Of A270.23 ha—Inert
Further Common Plantation0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Greenhill Farm0.2 ha1987Inert
Warren Farm0.2 ha—Inert
Hatherden Farm0.18 ha—Inert
Dunwood Hill Farm0.18 ha—IndustrialInert
Pound Farm B0.12 ha—Inert
Cranford Farm0.09 ha—Inert
Warren Farm0.07 ha—Inert
Small Dell A at Linsholme0.05 ha—Inert
Small Dell B at Linsholme0.05 ha—Inert

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 Romsey?
63 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Romsey 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 Romsey?
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.