Pit B Egham Experiment
Household
Pit B Egham Experiment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey. It received household waste between 1951 and 1954, covering about 3.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD35905, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35905 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pit B Egham Experiment |
| Address | Green Lane, Thorpe |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Egham Urban District Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1951 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1954 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 502439, 169535 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Green LaneInert
- Green LaneInert
- Pit A Egham ExperimentHousehold
- Pit C Egham ExperimentHousehold
- LongsideHouseholdCommercialInert
- Green Lane PitInert
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.