Roxwell Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Roxwell Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chelmsford, Essex. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1952 and 1969, covering about 9.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD00471, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00471 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roxwell Quarry |
| Address | Boyton Cross, Roxwell, Chelmsford, Essex |
| Site operator | John Fox Kingsbury Transport and Plant Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1952 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Area | 9.75 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 565600, 208400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Roxwell QuarryIndustrialInert
- Boyton CrossIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Boyton CrossIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Boyton Hall FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Boyton Hall FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Boyton Hall FarmHouseholdCommercial
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.