Landfill Check

The Folly

Waste types not recorded

The Folly is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Southam, Warwickshire. It received waste of unrecorded type in 1988, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD28653, October 2025 data revision.

Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28653
Site nameThe Folly
AddressNapton, Warwickshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input22 July 1988
Last waste input22 July 1988
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Severn MI
Grid reference445800, 260800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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.