Downfield No.1
Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Downfield No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wokingham, Wokingham. It received liquid/sludge, household and commercial waste between 1960 and 1981, covering about 5.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD10182, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10182 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Downfield No.1 |
| Address | Waltham St Lawrence |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Ex-Berkshire County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1975 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 5.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 483400, 176000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Downfield No.2HouseholdCommercial
- Shurlock RoadIndustrialInert
- Downfield No.3IndustrialCommercialInert
- Downfield No.4IndustrialCommercialInert
- Halls LaneInert
- Neville CloseIndustrialInert
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.