Widow Croft
Inert
Widow Croft is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tring, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1989, covering about 5.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD12449, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12449 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Widow Croft |
| Address | Buckland Common, Dundridge Manor, Oak Lane, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | P A Shaves |
| Licence issued | 10 December 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 5.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 492200, 206200 |
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
- Lady Grove LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Buckland Common NurseriesIndustrialInert
- Bellingdon BrickworksIndustrialInert
- Buckland Common NurseriesIndustrialInert
- The Old BrickworksInert
- Peppets GreenWaste 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.