Ruffetts Wood
IndustrialInert
Ruffetts Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redhill, Surrey. It received industrial and inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD11665, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11665 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ruffetts Wood |
| Address | High Road, Chipstead |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | K D and L Johnson |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 16 September 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 0.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 527700, 155700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Boors Green FarmIndustrialInert
- Hillside FarmInert
- Greystone LimeworksHouseholdCommercialInert
- Merstham Landfill SiteWaste 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.