Wellington Works
CommercialInert
Wellington Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Romiley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1983, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD16730, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16730 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wellington Works |
| Address | Thorn Works, Lambeth Grove, Woodley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Crown Decorative Products Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 April 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 393300, 392500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gravel Bank FarmIndustrialInert
- Mill Lane Recreation Ground LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Turner Lane No.2Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Rodney DriveWaste types not recorded
- Turner Lane No 1Liquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Bredbury LandfillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.