Ropers Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Ropers Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 11.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD01664, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01664 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ropers Farm |
| Address | Barling Magna, Great Wakering, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Essex |
| Site operator | Cory Environmental |
| Licence holder | William Cory and Son Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 January 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Last waste input | 20 April 1994 |
| Area | 11.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 592600, 190400 |
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
- Ropers FarmLiquid / sludge
- Barling Hall FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Barling HallIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- ChurchfieldsInert
- ChurchfieldsIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Barling HallHouseholdCommercial
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.