Hailey Wood
Inert
Hailey Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Watlington, Oxfordshire. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1973, covering about 3.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD13647, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13647 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hailey Wood |
| Address | Stokenchurch |
| Site operator | Merriman Limited |
| Licence holder | Merriman Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 3.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 474100, 196700 |
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.
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.