Middle Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Middle Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grays, Thurrock. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1972 and 1978, covering about 10.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD01649, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01649 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Middle Farm |
| Address | Buckles Lane, South Ockendon |
| Site operator | Cory Sand And Ballast Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Cory Sand and Ballast Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 10.28 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 560200, 181300 |
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
- Middle FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Hill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Middle LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- North of Buckles LaneWaste types not recorded
- South of Mollards LaneInert
- Buckles CampIndustrialCommercial
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.