Pole Hole Farm
IndustrialInert
Pole Hole Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Harlow, Essex. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1990, covering about 15.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD12216, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12216 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pole Hole Farm |
| Address | Eastwick Road, Pye Corner, Gilston, Near Harlow, Essex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Marshaide Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 May 1990 |
| First waste input | 5 June 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1990 |
| Area | 15.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 545200, 212100 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Pole Hole FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pole Hole FarmWaste types not recorded
- Pole Hole FarmWaste types not recorded
- Pole Hole FarmIndustrialInert
- Pole Hole TipIndustrialCommercial
- Pole Hole FarmWaste types not recorded
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.