Baynards Fullers Earth Pit
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Baynards Fullers Earth Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horsham, West Sussex. It received industrial and inert waste between 1927 and 1972, covering about 12.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD11793, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11793 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Baynards Fullers Earth Pit |
| Address | Rudgwick, Surrey |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Steetley Brick and Tile Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1927 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 12.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 506700, 135500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Historic landfill EAHLD35878Waste types not recorded
- Knowle Lane LandfillHouseholdCommercial
- Cutting at Tunnel EntranceWaste 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.