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Historic landfill sites in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

The Environment Agency records 40 historic landfill sites in and around Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 211 hectares in total. The largest is Park Lodge Farm at 82.91 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Rickmansworth (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Park Lodge Farm82.91 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Church Hill14.2 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Batchworth Heath Farm9.74 ha1980Inert
Dews Farm9.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Long Valley Wood8.58 ha—Inert
West of Springwell Lane7.79 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Harefield Lime Quarry6.47 ha—Waste types not recorded
Woodcock Hill6.3 ha1962IndustrialInert
Moor Lane6.05 ha1982SpecialIndustrial
Land off Harvil Road5.51 ha1973Waste types not recorded
Tolpits Lane5.49 ha1985Inert
Croxley Hall Farm4.35 ha1987Inert
Great Westwood Estate4.33 ha1986Inert
Harefield Marina3.55 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Croxley Hall Farm3.48 ha1987Inert
Moor Lane3.48 ha1982SpecialIndustrial
Berry Lane2.5 ha1974Waste types not recorded
Waybeards Farm2.32 ha1970Industrial
Long Valley Wood2.24 ha—Waste types not recorded
Tolpits Lake1.82 ha1984Inert
Moor Lane1.79 ha1982SpecialIndustrial
Broadwater Plant Site1.65 ha—Inert
Tolpitts Lane1.64 ha1985Inert
New Years Farm1.55 ha1989Waste types not recorded
Breakspear Road North1.29 ha1970IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Long Valley Wood1.28 ha—Waste types not recorded
Long Valley Wood1.27 ha—Waste types not recorded
Berry Lane1.25 ha1974Waste types not recorded
Moor Lane1.12 ha1982SpecialIndustrial
Charvil Lane1.06 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lynsters Lake1.06 ha1985Inert
Battlers Wells Farm1.05 ha1989CommercialInert
Juniper Hill1.03 ha1965Inert
Parkwood Farm0.86 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pynesfield Lake0.81 ha1985Inert
Harefield Grove0.69 ha—Waste types not recorded
Park Lane0.52 ha—Industrial
Ducks Hill Farm0.41 ha1970Inert
South of Merle Avenue0.32 ha1972Waste types not recorded
Lay-by Western Avenue Long Lane Farm0.2 ha—Inert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Rickmansworth?
40 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Rickmansworth town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Rickmansworth?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.