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Historic landfill sites in Slough, Slough

The Environment Agency records 35 historic landfill sites in and around Slough, Slough. covering roughly 250 hectares in total. The largest is Southend Farm at 30.84 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Southend Farm30.84 ha1989Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
All Souls Farm, Wrexham Park Lane30.6 ha—Inert
Wexham Street Landfill28.67 ha1978IndustrialInert
Langley Park Road21.23 ha1980HouseholdCommercialInert
Upton Court Park18.3 ha1969IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tip at Langley15.51 ha—Waste types not recorded
Crow Piece Lane13.82 ha1982SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Farthing Green Lane Landfill11.01 ha—Waste types not recorded
Iver Landfill8.46 ha—Waste types not recorded
Grotes Wood Landfill7.77 ha—Waste types not recorded
Langley Park Road7.6 ha1974HouseholdCommercialInert
Hollow Hill Lane Tip7.33 ha—Waste types not recorded
Warren Larches5.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mansion Lane Landfill5.34 ha1966IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Upton Court Farm5.21 ha—IndustrialCommercial
Herschel Park4.07 ha1989IndustrialInert
Wexham Park Golf Course Landfill3.53 ha—Waste types not recorded
Northborough Road3.39 ha1984IndustrialCommercialInert
The Myrke3.16 ha1959IndustrialCommercialInert
Hollow Hill Lane2.98 ha1969IndustrialInert
Norway Drive2.82 ha1980IndustrialCommercialInert
Caldicott School2.73 ha1980IndustrialInert
Mill Place2.48 ha1970IndustrialInert
Slough Road1.4 ha1959IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Galvin and Thirkleby Road1.23 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Farnham Lane Landfill1.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
Langley No.1 Pit0.69 ha1980IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Stoke Poges Landfill0.58 ha1959SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Crow Piece Landfill0.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Caravan Park0.47 ha1989IndustrialInert
Huntswood Landfill0.34 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hunts Wood0.32 ha—Waste types not recorded
Brockhurst Wood Landfill0.26 ha1968Waste types not recorded
Pennine Road0.07 ha1970IndustrialInert
The Pond0.04 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 Slough?
35 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Slough 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 Slough?
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.