America Farm
SpecialInert
America Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste between 1949 and 1993, covering about 28.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD01757, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01757 |
|---|---|
| Site name | America Farm |
| Address | Eye |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Newark Sand and Gravel |
| Licence issued | 3 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 January 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1949 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1993 |
| Area | 28.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 524100, 301800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Eye Quarry LandfillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Willow Hall Quarry And LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Eye Quarry, Northern ExtensionWaste 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.