Landfill Check

Batchworth Heath Farm

Inert

Batchworth Heath Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste in 1980, covering about 9.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD12365, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12365
Site nameBatchworth Heath Farm
AddressGriggs Field, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderC F Cronin Limited
Licence issued15 February 1980
Licence surrendered8 April 1982
First waste input15 February 1980
Last waste input1 September 1980
Area9.74 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference507100, 192600

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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

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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.