Gamston Wood
Household
Gamston Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Retford, Nottinghamshire. It received household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 11.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD35527, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35527 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gamston Wood |
| Address | Off Causeway Lane, Gamston, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | Retford Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 11.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 472400, 376700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.