Abbey Works
Waste types not recorded
Abbey Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Faversham, Kent. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1976, covering about 0.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD34643, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34643 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Abbey Works |
| Address | Swale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Pickrose and Company |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 602200, 161700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Abbey FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Ham Farm LandfillInert
- West StreetWaste types not recorded
- Ham RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Faversham QuarryInert
- Preston ForgeHouseholdInert
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.