Grasshopper Pit
IndustrialInert
Grasshopper Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westerham, Kent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1990, covering about 15.11 hectares. Reference EAHLD11729, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11729 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grasshopper Pit |
| Address | Grasshopper Pit, Clacketts Lane |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A and J Bull Southern Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 September 1990 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1990 |
| Area | 15.11 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 542700, 153600 |
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
- Clacket Lane Sand PitWaste types not recorded
- Clacket Lane Sand PitWaste types not recorded
- Land At Thrift WoodIndustrialInert
- Squerries Sand PitIndustrialInert
- Sandy LaneLiquid / sludgeInert
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.