Downs Road
IndustrialInert
Downs Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Witney, Oxfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste on dates not recorded, covering about 10.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD13527, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13527 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Downs Road |
| Address | Standlake |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sand and Gravel Limited, Mr Townsend |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 10.28 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 438700, 204800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Newlands Fishing ClubInert
- Hardwick Gravel Pit No.2HouseholdCommercialInert
- Hardwick Road No.3Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- BlackditchLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hardwick Road No.4HouseholdCommercialInert
- BlackditchWaste 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.