St Johns College - Trap Grounds
IndustrialHouseholdInert
St Johns College - Trap Grounds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oxford, Oxfordshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste until 1948, covering about 4.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD13428, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13428 |
|---|---|
| Site name | St Johns College - Trap Grounds |
| Address | Navigation Way, Oxford |
| Site operator | Cluttons |
| Licence holder | St John's College |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Area | 4.92 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 450300, 208000 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Woodstock Road LakesideWaste types not recorded
- Walton Well RoadWaste types not recorded
- Port MeadowSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Walton Well Road NorthIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Eagle Iron WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Walton Well Road AllotmentsIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.