Historic landfill sites in Washington
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Washington. covering roughly 80 hectares in total. The largest is Springwell Quarry No.3 at 17.97 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Washington (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springwell Quarry No.3 | 17.97 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Springwell Quarry No.1 | 12.33 ha | 1984 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rickleton Playing Fields | 4.43 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Calders Site | 3.6 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Clementis Crescent - Greymare Quarry | 3.59 ha | 1982 | HouseholdInert |
| Tube Products | 3.44 ha | — | Inert |
| Red Bungalows | 3.3 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Natural Stone Quarries Limited | 3.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Cox Green A | 3.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pattinson South | 2.87 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Low Mount Farm | 2.63 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Six Houses | 2.37 ha | — | Household |
| Natural Stone Quarries Limited | 2.13 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Biddick Lane | 1.83 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| North House Farm | 1.82 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Stephenson Industrial Estate | 1.52 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Galloping Green | 1.49 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Uplands | 1.44 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Northside Eighton Banks | 1.4 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Cox Green B Quarry | 0.91 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Mount Lane | 0.89 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Seldom Seen | 0.86 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Calders Site | 0.68 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Calders Site | 0.61 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Jubilee Tip | 0.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sugarwell Quarry | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Oxclose Quarry | 0.2 ha | — | 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 Washington?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Washington 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 Washington?
- 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.