Landfill Check

Irchester Landfill Site

Inert

Irchester Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1953 and 1987, covering about 6.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD02234, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02234
Site nameIrchester Landfill Site
AddressGypsy Lane Quarry, Wollaston Road, Irchester
Site operatorShanks and McEwan Midlands Limited
Licence holderNorthants Tipping Company
Licence issued30 December 1977
Licence surrendered30 April 1987
First waste input31 December 1953
Last waste input30 April 1987
Area6.52 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference491500, 265400

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.