Coryton Refinery
Liquid / sludge
Coryton Refinery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanford-le-Hope, Thurrock. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1981 and 1993, covering about 0.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD01268, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01268 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coryton Refinery |
| Address | Coryton Refinery, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex |
| Site operator | Mobil Oil Company Limited |
| Licence holder | The Mobil Oil Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 January 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 29 January 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 March 1993 |
| Area | 0.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 574500, 183000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coryton RefineryIndustrial
- Shell Haven RefineryLiquid / sludge
- Westwick FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Shell Haven RefinerySpecialLiquid / sludge
- Shell Haven RefineryLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Fobbing Horse IslandLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.