Brickletons Wood
HouseholdCommercialInert
Brickletons Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dover, Kent. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1967 and 1975, covering about 2.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD19709, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19709 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brickletons Wood |
| Address | Back Lane, West Hougham, Kent |
| Site operator | Dover Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Kent County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 3 April 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 2.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 626800, 141000 |
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
- Mount AraratInert
- Austins LaneInert
- Abbey RoadWaste types not recorded
- Elms Vale RoadInert
- SleedwoodIndustrialCommercialInert
- Austins LandWaste 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.