Abington Mills
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Abington Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Northampton, West Northamptonshire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1920 and 1986, covering about 1.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD02102, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02102 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Abington Mills |
| Address | Billing Road East, Nortthampton |
| Site operator | Stimpson-Perkins Plc |
| Licence holder | Stimpson Perkins Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1920 |
| Last waste input | 2 December 1986 |
| Area | 1.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 478100, 260400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Mill RaceInert
- Martins FarmInert
- NHS General HospitalWaste types not recorded
- Ransome Road SiteLiquid / sludge
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.