Bishops Wood
Inert
Bishops Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tring, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1981, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD13739, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13739 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bishops Wood |
| Address | Marlin Hill, Tring, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | N C J Rothschild |
| Licence holder | N C J Rothschild |
| Licence issued | 25 July 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 November 1990 |
| First waste input | 29 April 1980 |
| Last waste input | 29 November 1981 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 492500, 209800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bishops WoodInert
- Bishops WoodInert
- Bishops WoodInert
- Oddy HillInert
- Roundhill WoodsInert
- Buckland Common LandfillWaste 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.