Wakehams Green Farm
IndustrialInert
Wakehams Green Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horley, Surrey. It received industrial and inert waste between 1981 and 1985, covering about 6.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD12639, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12639 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wakehams Green Farm |
| Address | Copthorne Road, Pound Hill, Crawley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W and C French Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 February 1986 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 6 January 1985 |
| Area | 6.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 530200, 138300 |
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
- Heathy Ground WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Heathy Ground WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old HollowInert
- Blackcomer WoodInert
- The OaksInert
- Compasses CrossingInert
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.