Historic landfill sites in Southam, Warwickshire
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Southam, Warwickshire. covering roughly 42 hectares in total. The largest is Avon Hill Quarry at 9.32 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Southam (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Hill Quarry | 9.32 ha | 1986 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Stockton Tip | 7.52 ha | 1978 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Fosse Way | 4.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Tip, Cement Works | 3.87 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stockton Cutting/Disused Railway Cutting | 2.47 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Birdingbury Bridge | 2.19 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Fosse Way | 1.92 ha | 1980 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| The Paddocks | 1.71 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Gibralter Bridge | 1.55 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Ferry Farm | 0.97 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Land Adjacent to the Grand Union Canal | 0.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stockton Landfill, Stockton | 0.63 ha | 1992 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Garlicks Landfill Site | 0.54 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Napton Brickworks | 0.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Avonhill Quarry Landfill Site | 0.39 ha | 1986 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Churchland Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Snowford Bridge | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rock Haven | 0.2 ha | — | Household |
| Snowford Bridge | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ladbroke Road | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Mill Lane | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ash Pole Spinney | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Near Boat Inn | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stockton Cutting | 0.2 ha | 1992 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bascote Bridge | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Debdale Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Folly | 0.2 ha | 1988 | Waste types not recorded |
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 Southam?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Southam 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 Southam?
- 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.