Paddock Woods
Inert
Paddock Woods is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Godalming, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 2.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD11753, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11753 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Paddock Woods |
| Address | Wormley, Surrey |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr and Mrs Routledge |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 2.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 495600, 138500 |
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
- Cuckoo Corner - Unlicenced Highway StoreIndustrialCommercialInert
- Nutbourne BrickworksInert
- Small Enton LakeInert
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.