Wissington Sugar Factory
Industrial
Wissington Sugar Factory is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Downham Market, Norfolk. It received industrial waste from 1977, covering about 1.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD00983, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00983 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wissington Sugar Factory |
| Address | Wissington, Wereham Fen |
| Site operator | British Sugar Corporation |
| Licence holder | British Sugar Corporation |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 23 May 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 566300, 298100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wissington Sugar FactoryWaste types not recorded
- British Sugar - Wissington Sugar FactoryWaste 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.