Barcombe Mills
Inert
Barcombe Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lewes, East Sussex. It received inert waste in 1981, covering about 0.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD19905, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19905 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barcombe Mills |
| Address | Barcombe, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W W Martins |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.03 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 543200, 115000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Former Village tipWaste types not recorded
- North of Deans Meadow - Bottom of Grantham BankHouseholdCommercial
- Norlington PondWaste 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.