Weydon Lane Landfill
HouseholdCommercialInert
Weydon Lane Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Farnham, Surrey. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1972 and 1976, covering about 3.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD11768, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11768 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Weydon Lane Landfill |
| Address | Weydon Lane, Farnham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Surrey County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1976 |
| Area | 3.91 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 483500, 145700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Farnham PotteriesWaste types not recorded
- British Rail Engineers TipInert
- School HillWaste types not recorded
- Coxbridge SandpitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wrecclesham SandpitInert
- Wooda CrossInert
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.