Charity Farm
Industrial
Charity Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leiston, Suffolk. It received industrial waste between 1978 and 1987, covering about 0.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD01871, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01871 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Charity Farm |
| Address | Charity Farm, Westleton |
| Site operator | A J Mew |
| Licence holder | A J Mew |
| Licence issued | 16 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 July 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 0.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 644100, 270500 |
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
- Haw Wood LaneWaste types not recorded
- Westleton SawmillsWaste types not recorded
- Saw MillsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.