Historic landfill sites in Woodley, Wokingham
The Environment Agency records 53 historic landfill sites in and around Woodley, Wokingham. covering roughly 168 hectares in total. The largest is Sandford Farm No.2 at 32.48 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Woodley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandford Farm No.2 | 32.48 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Mortimers Meadow | 24.83 ha | — | Inert |
| Ashenbury Park | 22.71 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Sandford Farm | 10.81 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Whistley Mill Stage 1 | 9.99 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Central Electricity Generating Board | 7.03 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Power Station | 6.02 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| King Georges Field | 5.14 ha | 1959 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Sandford Farm | 4.9 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Strathmore Drive | 3.62 ha | 1962 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Lower Earley Way | 3.61 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thames Valley Park | 3.36 ha | 1989 | Special |
| East Park Farm | 3.07 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Thames Valley Park | 3.04 ha | 1989 | Special |
| Whistley Mill Stage 2 | 2.87 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Sewage Works | 2.29 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Power Station | 2.02 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Milkingbarn Lane | 1.81 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tippings Lane | 1.67 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Thames Valley Park | 1.61 ha | 1989 | Special |
| Thames Valley Park | 1.45 ha | 1989 | Special |
| Whitehall Brickworks | 1.27 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Park Farm | 1.26 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Loddon Bridge Road | 1.21 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thames Valley Park | 1.09 ha | 1989 | Special |
| Broadwater Tip | 1.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ruscombe Turn | 0.99 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Piggery | 0.87 ha | 1985 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Thames Valley Park | 0.74 ha | 1989 | Special |
| Old Chalk Pit | 0.63 ha | 1984 | Industrial |
| Bearwood College No.1 | 0.5 ha | 1973 | IndustrialInert |
| Gipsy Lane | 0.48 ha | 1959 | Inert |
| Wee Waif | 0.47 ha | 1979 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Blue Coat School | 0.45 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| The Ford | 0.43 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Haines Hill | 0.39 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Reading University | 0.37 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Behind Village Hall | 0.29 ha | 1979 | Inert |
| Milestone East | 0.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Loddon Park Farm | 0.21 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sandstone Close | 0.15 ha | 1959 | Inert |
| Bovis Homes | 0.14 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Milestone | 0.12 ha | — | Inert |
| Sandstone Close | 0.1 ha | 1959 | Inert |
| Hephaistos School | 0.1 ha | — | Inert |
| Reading Road | 0.09 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Ruscombe Pond | 0.09 ha | — | Inert |
| Airfield Woodley | 0.08 ha | 1969 | Inert |
| Jouldings Lane | 0.07 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Airfield Woodley | 0.07 ha | 1969 | Inert |
| Loddon Bridge Road | 0.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Castle End Farm | 0.04 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Airfield Woodley | 0.02 ha | 1969 | Inert |
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 Woodley?
- 53 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Woodley 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 Woodley?
- 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.