Pynesfield Farm
SpecialIndustrialInert
Pynesfield Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1968 and 1975, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD12369, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12369 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pynesfield Farm |
| Address | Maple Cross, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | P Lory Esquire |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 9 July 1968 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1975 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 502400, 191300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Warren QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Colony QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Warren Farm QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Warren QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Warren Farm LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Richard Biffa LimitedIndustrialCommercial
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.