British Gypsum1
Industrial
British Gypsum1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Battle, East Sussex. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1992, covering about 1.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD19811, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19811 |
|---|---|
| Site name | British Gypsum1 |
| Address | British Gypsum No.1, Mountfield, NearBattle |
| Site operator | British Gypsum Limited |
| Licence holder | British Gypsum Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 November 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 1.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 572600, 119500 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- British Gypsum2Industrial
- Junction of Solomon's Lane and Eatenden LaneHouseholdCommercial
- MountfieldLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- New Cut WoodsHouseholdCommercial
- TemplewoodWaste types not recorded
- St John's CrossInert
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.