Methwold Fens
Waste types not recorded
Methwold Fens is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Downham Market, Norfolk. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1964, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD00707, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00707 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Methwold Fens |
| Address | Methwold Fens, Norfolk |
| Site operator | J H Waterfall and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 564900, 294700 |
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.