Orchards Cottage
Inert
Orchards Cottage is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near East Grinstead, West Sussex. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1981, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD34138, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34138 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Orchards Cottage |
| Address | East Grinstead |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C J Wilks |
| Licence issued | 18 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 April 1981 |
| First waste input | 18 June 1979 |
| Last waste input | 22 April 1981 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 541300, 139500 |
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
- Larches FarmInert
- Gotwick Wood FarmInert
- Eden Vale Sewage WorksSpecialHouseholdCommercial
- Beeches FarmWaste types not recorded
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.