Windmill Lane
IndustrialCommercialInert
Windmill Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Irthlingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1958 and 1975, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD02161, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02161 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Windmill Lane |
| Address | Off Windmill Road, Irthlingborough, East Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | Irthlingborough Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1958 |
| Last waste input | 30 January 1975 |
| Area | 1.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 493500, 270500 |
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.
- 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
- Southside of Finedon RoadInert
- OS Plot 182, South Of Wellingborogh RoadInert
- Nevilles LodgeInert
- Burton Latimer Urban District Council TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Westfield LodgeInert
- Off Finedon RoadInert
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.