Landfill Check

Wingmoor Farm Landfill Site

IndustrialHouseholdCommercial

Wingmoor Farm Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste from 1992, covering about 67.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD35777, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35777
Site nameWingmoor Farm Landfill Site
AddressCheltenham, Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire
Site operatorWingmoor Farm Landfill Site
Licence holderWingmoor Farm Landfill Site
Licence issued3 August 1992
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area67.03 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWest
Grid reference393427, 227493

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.
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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.