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Historic landfill sites in Royston

The Environment Agency records 36 historic landfill sites in and around Royston. covering roughly 130 hectares in total. The largest is Littleworth Lane at 48.74 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Littleworth Lane48.74 ha1996Household
Cudworth North Junction23.28 ha1995SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cudworth Tip Site6.66 ha—Waste types not recorded
Ryhill Landfill6.17 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Poplar Terrace5.47 ha1980Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Klondyke Tip4.37 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Cudworth Landfill Site4.3 ha1977SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Poplar Terrace4.04 ha—Waste types not recorded
Warren Walk2.87 ha—Waste types not recorded
Weetshaw Lane2.5 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land off Cronkhill Lane2.2 ha1990CommercialInert
Royston Refuse Tip1.92 ha—Commercial
Former Cudworth Railway Station1.92 ha—Inert
P L M Redfearn Limited1.58 ha—IndustrialInert
A61/Woolley New Road1.42 ha1991Inert
Land between Royston Lane and Cronkhill Lane1.41 ha1993CommercialInert
Land off Cronkhill Lane1.25 ha1990CommercialInert
Quarry off Weetshaw Lane1 ha1984CommercialInert
R. Armstrong0.98 ha—Waste types not recorded
R. Armstrong0.98 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rough Bottom Plantation0.89 ha1984Inert
Land off Midland Road0.75 ha1997CommercialInert
Land adjacent to 480 - 502 Burton Road0.69 ha1988CommercialInert
Business Premises off Midland Road0.67 ha1986CommercialInert
Ridings Quarry0.66 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Workings0.65 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Burton Road0.5 ha1989HouseholdCommercialInert
Bleach Croft Farm0.49 ha1994CommercialInert
Chevet Branch Line0.46 ha1990CommercialInert
Land Off Cross Lane0.43 ha1994Household
Sandy Bridge0.31 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Workings0.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Newland Avenue0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lyons Bakery0.13 ha1986CommercialInert
Disused Railway Sidings0.1 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Monk Bretton Recreation Ground0.1 ha1983IndustrialCommercialInert

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 Royston?
36 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Royston 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 Royston?
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.