Historic landfill sites in Ryde, Isle of Wight
The Environment Agency records 10 historic landfill sites in and around Ryde, Isle of Wight. covering roughly 9 hectares in total. The largest is Field at Swanmore at 2.17 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Ryde (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field at Swanmore | 2.17 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Binstead Lodge Road | 1.9 ha | — | Inert |
| Slade Road | 0.93 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Old Brickworks | 0.84 ha | — | Industrial |
| Atkinson Drive | 0.81 ha | — | Inert |
| Refuse tip off Meaders Road | 0.75 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Fishbourne Quay | 0.64 ha | — | Inert |
| Oakfield Recreation Ground | 0.54 ha | — | Inert |
| High Street Tip | 0.38 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| The Piggeries | 0.26 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
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 Ryde?
- 10 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Ryde 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 Ryde?
- 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.