Sydenham Farm
Inert
Sydenham Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Banbury, Oxfordshire. It received inert waste between 1997 and 1998, covering about 9.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD10551, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10551 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sydenham Farm |
| Address | Adderbury, Banbury, Oxford, Oxfordshire |
| Site operator | M R Stevens |
| Licence holder | M R Stevens and Sons |
| Licence issued | 23 October 1997 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 March 1998 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 449000, 235300 |
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
- Sydenham FarmInert
- East Adderbury Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Waterbridge FarmWaste types not recorded
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.