Martins Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Martins Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brightlingsea, Essex. It received industrial, household and commercial waste from 1977, covering about 15.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD01241, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01241 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Martins Farm |
| Address | Martins Farm, St Osyth |
| Site operator | Essex County Council |
| Licence holder | County Surveyor, Chelmsford, Essex |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 15.66 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 611700, 217100 |
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
- Martins FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Robinson RoadInert
- Kiln FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Rear of 796-886 St Osyth Main RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Point Clear Bay HolidayCommercial
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.