Towsers Lodge Farm
IndustrialInert
Towsers Lodge Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1976 and 1977, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD19232, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19232 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Towsers Lodge Farm |
| Address | Mark Cross, East Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Shevington Waste Disposal Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Area | 0.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 558100, 131900 |
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
- North West of Renhurst FarmInert
- Mark CrossIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.