Attleborough
HouseholdCommercialInert
Attleborough is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Attleborough, Norfolk. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1971 and 1979, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD00616, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00616 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Attleborough |
| Address | Attleborough, Norfolk |
| Site operator | Wayland Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Wayland Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 January 1979 |
| First waste input | 16 July 1971 |
| Last waste input | 23 January 1979 |
| Area | 0.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 604700, 293700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Crowshall LaneWaste 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.