Barking Ash Lagoon
Industrial
Barking Ash Lagoon is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chigwell, Essex. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 2.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD11423, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11423 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barking Ash Lagoon |
| Address | Ash Lagoon, Barking |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 25 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 November 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 November 1984 |
| Area | 2.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 547000, 182600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Area 4J and 4K ThamesmeadSpecialInert
- Beckton STWLiquid / sludgeInert
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.