Rookery Pit
Inert
Rookery Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stevenage, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 3.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD10051, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10051 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rookery Pit |
| Address | Frogmore Hall, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | County Council |
| Licence issued | 6 September 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 June 1985 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1983 |
| Last waste input | 28 June 1985 |
| Area | 3.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 529000, 220200 |
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.
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.