Wheathampstead Skip Hire | Wheathampstead Waste Recycling | Wheathampstead Licensed Waste Carriers

Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Wheathampstead. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Avoid stress by hiring a skip from Wheathampstead Skip Hire

Stevenage Skip Hire sends all waste from Wheathampstead back to our primary recycling plant in Stevenage.

A recent client of ours was telling us just how painful his last weekend trip to the local household recycling centre was. Talk about stressful!

He had spent all of his Saturday collecting the rubbish from his loft and garden and loading it all into his car. Some of the garden waste was rather smelly as it had started to rot down, so you can bet it was crawling with wood lice, centipedes, and spiders, not the sort of thing you really want in the family car. So, he loaded all the dirty smelly waste into his small camping trailer, problem sorted!

Once the car and trailer were loaded with rubbish, he set off to the local tip. On arrival the line of traffic waiting to get into the tip was already halfway down the A414. Over two hours went by as the tip staff allowed four vehicles at a time in to offload their waste materials. Eventually, he reached the barrier only to be told that he was not allowed to empty the garden waste into the skips as it was in a trailer. They would accept the rubbish in his car, just not in the trailer.

Avoid disappointment with our skips in Wheathampstead

As a result, he had to return home and ferry all the garden waste back into his garden using the wheelbarrow he had taken ages getting it out several hours earlier. Rather than transfer it into waterproof bags or containers, he decides to keep the waste material until he could hire a skip from us. The skip was delivered on time, and our client could empty all his garden waste into it along with the other waste material that he could not fit into his car on the ill-fated trip run.

For safe, convenient rubbish removal of bulky and heavy loads, it is well worth contacting us at Wheathampstead Skip Hire for some advice and a quote.

A little about Wheathampstead

Belgic invaders settled in the Wheathampstead area in around 50 BC. They moved up the rivers Thames and Lea from what is now Belgium. Evidence for them was found in Devil's Dyke, at the eastern side of Wheathampstead. The Devil's Dyke earthworks are part of the remains of an ancient settlement of the Catuvellauni and thought to have been the ancient tribe's original capital. The capital was moved to Verlamion, which after the Roman conquest the Romans would rename Verulamium, which in turn would become the modern and vibrant town of St Albans in about 20 BC. Silver Republican coins dating back to 100 BC are common finds around the Verulam settlement.

The Devil's Dyke is thought to be where Julius Caesar defeated Cassivellaunus in 54 BC, although this claim has been disputed by many history scholars. Some historians suggest that the dyke was part of the same defensive rampart as nearby Beech Bottom Dyke, which, if correct, would make the area one of the largest and most important British Iron Age settlements to have ever been discovered.

Wheathampstead is recorded in the Domesday Book

Later still, the village of Wheathampstead is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name Watamestede. It appears that a church existed at Wheathampstead before the Norman Conquest, as Wheathampstead was given by Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey, but it is exceedingly difficult to determine whether any portion of the present St Helen's Church is of Saxon work. The original structure was demolished in the reign of Henry III, the oldest portion of the present church, in the chancel, which is assigned to the year 1280.

Some historians have claimed that in 1312 the barons who leagued against Edward II and his favourite Piers Gaveston, gathered their troops at Wheathampstead, and whilst there refused to receive emissaries from the Pope, although there seems to be no other documentary evidence of this.

The parish of Wheathampstead included the chapelry of Harpenden until 1859. Several of the rectors of Wheathampstead went on to have successful ecclesiastical careers. Richard Sampson, who held the position in the 16th century, was in 1523 appointed Lord President of Wales, and in 1543 consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Richard Pate, another rector, was in 1554 consecrated Bishop of Worcester. Lambert Osbaldeston was also master of Westminster School and became more famous later for a controversy with Archbishop Laud; having used libellous language he was, in 1639, deprived of his living and fined £5,000, a vast sum of money in those days. Henry Killigrew, in 1661, was made Master of the Savoy. John Lambe, whose father mainly devoted his life to the alleviation of the sufferings of prisoners, was also a rector, and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary II. John Wheeldon was the author of several works, and Queen Victoria's private tutor was also a former rector.

The village is also close to the supposedly haunted Nomansland common, and slightly further afield, St Albans.

Nomansland Common in Wheathampstead

In the 17th century brigands and footpads preyed upon travellers around the Wheathampstead common, the most famous of which was the "Wicked Lady", a highwaywoman claimed, after her death, to have been Lady Katherine Ferrers of Markyate. Ferrers Lane, which runs through the middle of the common, takes its name from her, and her exploits are the subject of two films of that name. Also, a pub on the edge of the common is called The Wicked Lady. It is her ghost that many believe still haunts the common to this day.

Two murders are associated with the Common. In 1977 the body of 24-year-old Janie Shepherd, an Australian heiress, was dumped there; she had been raped and murdered. In 2009, a severed male forearm was discovered on a grass verge in Drovers Lane by a group of walkers. The arm proved to be part of the body of Jeffrey Howe, who had been stabbed to death and dismembered before his severed body parts were dumped across two counties.

Living a hassle-free life in Wheathampstead thanks to skip hire

So if you live in or around the Wheathampstead area of Hertfordshire and want to take the worry and hassle out of disposing of your domestic or commercial waste and don't want to be hassled about when the local dump is open, why not give us a call at Wheathampstead Skip Hire. Do not waste hour after hour waiting in line at the local tip to offload your waste materials. Wheathampstead Skip Hire deal with all manner of domestic and commercial waste and dispose of it in an environmentally responsible way. Simply phone us and we can advise you as to the best size of skip for your needs.

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Wheathampstead:

• Skip Hire
• Waste Recycling
• Waste Management
• Envirowaste Recycling Centre
• Waste Disposal
• Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
• Licensed Waste Carriers
• Environment Agency Approved
• Skip Permits Arranged
• Same Day Drop Off and Collection
• Aggregates For Sale

• We offer a fully secure online ordering service for our skip hiring.
• Please select the required skip size below and the type of waste being placed into the skip.
• We will contact you within 24 Hrs to confirm delivery dates.
• Domestic skip hire is for 7 days. Additional periods of hire can be arranged prior to booking.

Highway permit service for Hertfordshire

If your skip is to be placed on a Hertfordshire highway or a verge then a permit is required, We can arrange this for you, with the permit costing from £57.00 including VAT. A permit can take up to a week to be approved by the local council, Please bear this in mind when ordering.

Payment methods

We accept Mastercard, Visa or Maestro.

Please read our Terms and conditions of skip hire before ordering.

All prices given are plus VAT which is added at the payment stage

Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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