Landfill Check

Wollaston Landfill Site

HouseholdInert

Wollaston Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received household and inert waste between 1972 and 1986, covering about 7.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD02245, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02245
Site nameWollaston Landfill Site
AddressIrchester Road, Wollaston
Site operatorNorthamptonshire County Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1972
Last waste input1 December 1986
Area7.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference490800, 264200

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.