Landfill Check

Adath Yisroel Burial Ground

Industrial

Adath Yisroel Burial Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. It received industrial waste between 1961 and 1985, covering about 1.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD12970, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12970
Site nameAdath Yisroel Burial Ground
AddressSilver Street, Goffs Oak, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCheshunt Contractors Plant
Licence issued8 February 1985
Licence surrendered17 July 1986
First waste input5 June 1961
Last waste input1 October 1985
Area1.18 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference532800, 201900

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.