Witchley Warren
Inert
Witchley Warren is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It received inert waste between 1925 and 1993, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD01536, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01536 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Witchley Warren |
| Address | Ketton Road, Rutland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | E L Makey and Sons |
| Licence issued | 28 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 October 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1925 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1993 |
| Area | 0.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 496100, 305200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Empingham RoadWaste types not recorded
- Rear of Home FarmIndustrialInert
- Grange Bottom QuarryInert
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.