Landfill Check

Hambleden Lock

Waste types not recorded

Hambleden Lock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1993 and 1994, covering about 0.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD10074, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD10074
Site nameHambleden Lock
AddressMill End
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued12 October 1993
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input30 April 1994
Area0.13 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East TH
Grid reference477900, 185000

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

Boundary map

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.