Leigh Marshes
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Leigh Marshes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Canvey Island, Essex. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1955 and 1967, covering about 25.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD00531, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00531 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leigh Marshes |
| Address | Leigh Marshes, Southend |
| Site operator | Southend On Sea County Borough |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Area | 25.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 582500, 185600 |
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.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Leigh Controlled Tip (Two Tree IslandCommercial
- Hadleigh MarshHouseholdCommercial
- Two Tree IslandHouseholdCommercialInert
- Newlands MarshIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Newlands Disposal SiteCommercial
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.