Worth Abbey
IndustrialCommercialInert
Worth Abbey is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crawley, West Sussex. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1986, covering about 2.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD10977, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10977 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Worth Abbey |
| Address | Paddockhurst Road, Turners Hill |
| Site operator | Hales Containers |
| Licence holder | Worth Trustee Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 May 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 2.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 531700, 134600 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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- Rowfant BrickworksWaste types not recorded
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- Rowfant Saw MillInert
- Rowfant Saw MillWaste 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.