Rectory Farm
Inert
Rectory Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Saffron Walden, Essex. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 7.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD34710, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34710 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rectory Farm |
| Address | Littlebury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 3 February 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 7.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 551100, 240300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bordeaux FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Littlebury Chalk PitInert
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.