Grange Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Grange Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grays, Thurrock. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1974 and 1990, covering about 40.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD01644, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01644 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grange Farm |
| Address | Buckles Lane, South Ockendon, Essex |
| Site operator | Cleanaway Limited |
| Licence holder | Cleanaway Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1990 |
| Area | 40.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 561200, 182800 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ockendon Grays Area No.3Waste types not recorded
- Land at Middle LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- South of Mollards LaneInert
- Mollands LaneInert
- North of Buckles LaneWaste types not recorded
- Middle FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.