Massingham Tip
Waste types not recorded
Massingham Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swaffham, Norfolk. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1959 and 1973, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD31114, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31114 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Massingham Tip |
| Address | Massingham Heath, Norfolk |
| Site operator | Freebridge Lynn Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1973 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 579000, 320600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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.