Irchester Landfill Site - Vicarage Farm
Inert
Irchester Landfill Site - Vicarage Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1993, covering about 4.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD02244, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02244 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Irchester Landfill Site - Vicarage Farm |
| Address | Wollaston Road, Irchester |
| Site operator | Shanks and McEwan Midlands Limited |
| Licence holder | Northamptonshire Tipping Co |
| Licence issued | 30 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 October 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1986 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.28 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 491500, 265000 |
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
- Irchester Landfill SiteInert
- Wellingborough Urban District CouncilInert
- Land North of Gipsy LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Wollaston PlantIndustrialCommercial
- Wollaston Landfill SiteHouseholdInert
- Knuston LodgeInert
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.