Wereham Gravel Co Ltd - Crimplesham Gravel Pit
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Wereham Gravel Co Ltd - Crimplesham Gravel Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Downham Market, Norfolk. It received industrial and inert waste between 1996 and 2010, covering about 9.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD35708, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35708 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wereham Gravel Co Ltd - Crimplesham Gravel Pit |
| Address | Main Road, Kings Lynn, Crimplesham, Norfolk |
| Site operator | Wereham Gravel Co Ltd - Crimplesham Gravel Pit |
| Licence holder | Wereham Gravel Co Ltd - Crimplesham Gravel Pit |
| Licence issued | 3 January 1996 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 March 2010 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central |
| Grid reference | 566210, 303650 |
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
- Crimplesham Gravel PitInert
- Anzac PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lynn RoadWaste types not recorded
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.