River Thames At Culham
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
River Thames At Culham is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste from 1985, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD13723, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13723 |
|---|---|
| Site name | River Thames At Culham |
| Address | Culham, Oxfordshire |
| Site operator | Thames Water |
| Licence holder | Thames Water |
| Licence issued | 19 August 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 450800, 194700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Appleford Road NorthInert
- All Saints LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Appleford Road SouthInert
- Hobbyhorse Lane NorthLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sutton Courtenay 90 Acre SiteLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Southern Town ParkLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
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.