Land at Croxley Mills
Industrial
Land at Croxley Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Watford, Hertfordshire. It received industrial waste between 1936 and 1982, covering about 4.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD12356, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12356 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Croxley Mills |
| Address | Croxley Green, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | John Dickenson and Company |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 June 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1936 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 4.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 508700, 195100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Croxley MillsLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Long Valley WoodWaste types not recorded
- Tolpits Lane PitWaste types not recorded
- Long Valley WoodInert
- Long Valley WoodWaste types not recorded
- Rousebarn LaneSpecialInert
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.