Railway Cutting
HouseholdCommercialInert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1971 and 1979, covering about 0.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD00878, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00878 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Railway Cutting, Great. Walsingham |
| Site operator | Walsingham Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Walsingham Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 December 1971 |
| Last waste input | 10 August 1979 |
| Area | 0.65 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 593500, 338100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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.