Disused Railway Cutting at Easton Lane
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Disused Railway Cutting at Easton Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Winchester, Hampshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste from 1969, covering about 0.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD20455, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20455 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting at Easton Lane |
| Address | Winchester, Hampshire |
| Site operator | City of Winchester |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.89 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 449100, 130000 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- WinnallHouseholdCommercial
- Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- Nuns RoadIndustrialInert
- Spitfire LinkWaste types not recorded
- Land Between Old Newbury Railway and A33Waste types not recorded
- King George V Playing FieldsWaste 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.