Landfill Check

Stoke Ferry Landfill

IndustrialInert

Stoke Ferry Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Downham Market, Norfolk. It received industrial and inert waste from 1989, covering about 1.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD01044, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01044
Site nameStoke Ferry Landfill
AddressStoke Ferry
Site operatorMr A M White
Licence holderMr A M White
Licence issued18 September 1989
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input18 September 1989
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.56 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference569600, 300800

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

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.