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Historic landfill sites in Warlingham, Surrey

The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Warlingham, Surrey. covering roughly 158 hectares in total. The largest is Albert Road at 60.16 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Albert Road60.16 haWaste types not recorded
Broombank Quarry14.64 ha1993Inert
Woodside Brickworks14.21 ha1984Inert
Broombank Quarry12.96 haInert
Norehill Quarry11.07 ha1974Inert
Havelock Road8.22 ha1950IndustrialHouseholdInert
Homestead Way7.72 haWaste types not recorded
Worms Heath Tip6.23 ha1979Inert
Bromley Market4.72 haWaste types not recorded
Broom Bank Quarry4.47 haWaste types not recorded
East of Tiepigs Lane2.59 ha1983IndustrialInert
Layhams Farm2 haWaste types not recorded
Highams Field1.45 ha1991Inert
Sheetings Farm1.38 haInert
West of Tiepigs Lane1.34 ha1950Inert
Wandle Park1.22 ha1967Inert
Widmore Green Recreation Site1.09 haHousehold
Slines Oak Road0.54 ha1986Inert
Units 1 and 20.44 ha1968Waste types not recorded
Featherbed Lane Scout Camp0.38 haWaste types not recorded
Clement Road0.33 haWaste types not recorded
Featherbed Lane Scout Camp0.25 haWaste types not recorded
Langdon Road0.24 haWaste types not recorded
Polewood Cottage Cavanna0.21 ha1996Inert
Featherbed Lane Scout Camp0.21 ha1993IndustrialInert
Beechwood0.14 ha1982Inert
Ashmore Farm0.05 ha1950Inert

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 Warlingham?
27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Warlingham 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 Warlingham?
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.