High Holborn Farm
Inert
High Holborn Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oundle, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1956 and 1989, covering about 1.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD01448, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01448 |
|---|---|
| Site name | High Holborn Farm |
| Address | Wansford Road, Elton |
| Site operator | Nene Barge and Lighter Company |
| Licence holder | Starvoid Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 May 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1956 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 1.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 508600, 296000 |
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
- Hostel FarmInert
- Elton Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercial
- Wansford Road, YarwellInert
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.