Woodcock Hill
IndustrialInert
Woodcock Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1957 and 1962, covering about 6.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD12366, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12366 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Woodcock Hill |
| Address | Northwood, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Woodcock Hill Brick and Tile Company |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 26 September 1957 |
| Last waste input | 3 July 1962 |
| Area | 6.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 506300, 192400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Harefield GroveWaste types not recorded
- Batchworth Heath FarmInert
- Juniper HillInert
- Battlers Wells FarmCommercialInert
- West of Springwell LaneHouseholdCommercial
- Harefield Lime QuarryWaste 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.