Landfill Check

Land At Woodcock Hill

HouseholdCommercialInert

Land At Woodcock Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near East Grinstead, West Sussex. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1981, covering about 0.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD19208, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19208
Site nameLand At Woodcock Hill
AddressLand At Woodcock Hill, East of Woodcock Bridge, Felbridge
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr Mason
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input10 November 1981
Area0.69 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference536500, 141200

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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.