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Historic landfill sites in Hertford, Hertfordshire

The Environment Agency records 53 historic landfill sites in and around Hertford, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 409 hectares in total. The largest is Water Hall Landfill at 47.99 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Hertford (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Water Hall Landfill47.99 ha—Industrial
Waterford Quarry Landfill36.71 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Water Hall Landfill30.52 ha—Waste types not recorded
Waterford Quarry Landfill24.27 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Waterford Quarry Landfill20.22 ha—Inert
Water Hall Landfill19.9 ha—Inert
Waterford Quarry Landfill16.9 ha—Waste types not recorded
Southend Farm16.03 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Calais Wood12.65 ha1976HouseholdCommercial
Waterford Quarry Landfill11.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Waterford Quarry Landfill10.48 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Waterford Quarry Landfill10.48 ha—Waste types not recorded
Waterford Quarry Landfill10.48 ha—Waste types not recorded
Waterford Quarry Landfill10.06 ha—Waste types not recorded
Panshanger Park8.46 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Waterford Quarry Landfill8.13 ha1993Inert
Waterford Quarry Landfill8.13 ha1989Inert
Water Hall Landfill7.66 ha—Waste types not recorded
Panshanger Park7.21 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Foxholes Quarry7.2 ha1983Industrial
Waterford Quarry Landfill6.5 ha1986SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Waterford Gravel Pit6.31 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Bramfield Lane5.78 ha—Inert
Waterford Quarry Landfill5.48 ha1975SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
St Mary's Lane5.23 ha1959IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Bramfield Lane5.13 ha—Waste types not recorded
Southend Farm5.02 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Waterford Landfill4.82 ha—Waste types not recorded
Calais Wood4.71 ha—Waste types not recorded
Chalk Pit4.48 ha1981IndustrialInert
Waterford Quarry Landfill3.94 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Chalk Pit2.37 ha1989IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Bedwell Avenue2.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Avenue2.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Avenue2.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bedwell Avenue2.06 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bramfield Lane1.87 ha1985Inert
Pollards Quarry, Hertford1.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
Fountain Drive1.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pollards Quarry, Hertford1.6 ha—Waste types not recorded
Waterford Plantation and Timber Orchard1.39 ha1993Inert
Port Vale Hertford1.39 ha1992SpecialIndustrialInert
Tyersley Farm1.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stonyhills1.22 ha1973HouseholdCommercial
Disused Gravel Pit0.64 ha1981Inert
West End0.64 ha—Waste types not recorded
Place Farm0.5 ha1970Inert
Mead Lane0.46 ha1970Inert
Tattle Hill0.45 ha1965Inert
Dell Hole0.18 ha1986Inert
Mead Lane0.17 ha—Inert
Waterford Plantation and Timber Orchard0.12 ha1989Inert
St Michael and All Angels Church0.05 ha1988Inert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Hertford?
53 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hertford town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Hertford?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.