Ten Acres
Inert
Ten Acres is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. It received inert waste between 1960 and 1994, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD01081, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01081 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ten Acres |
| Address | Arkesden Road, Wicken Bonhunt, Saffron Walden |
| Site operator | Saffron Walden Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Mr G Draper |
| Licence issued | 11 August 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 25 April 1994 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 549200, 233200 |
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
- Arkesden RoadWaste 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.