Landfill Check

Worsham Quarry Landfill

Waste types not recorded

Worsham Quarry Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Carterton, Oxfordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 2006 and 2012, covering about 8.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD35828, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35828
Site nameWorsham Quarry Landfill
AddressWitney, Asthall, Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire
Site operatorWorsham Quarry Landfill
Licence holderSmith & Sons ( Bletchington ) Ltd
Licence issued27 September 2006
Licence surrendered17 October 2012
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area8.78 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWest Thames
Grid reference429837, 210172

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.