British Rail Engineers Tip
Inert
British Rail Engineers Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Farnham, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1947 and 1997, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD11769, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11769 |
|---|---|
| Site name | British Rail Engineers Tip |
| Address | Wrecclesham Road, Farnham, Surrey |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Railways Board |
| Licence issued | 2 March 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1997 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 483300, 145900 |
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
- Weydon Lane LandfillHouseholdCommercialInert
- Farnham PotteriesWaste types not recorded
- Coxbridge SandpitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- School HillWaste types not recorded
- Wrecclesham SandpitInert
- Alton Road LandfillSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.