Broxbournebury Park Quarry
HouseholdCommercialInert
Broxbournebury Park Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1991, covering about 8.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD10069, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10069 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Broxbournebury Park Quarry |
| Address | Cock Lane, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Redland Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 8.95 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 536000, 207600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gravel WorkingsInert
- Broxbournebury Park QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lodge Hollow WestHouseholdCommercial
- Hoddesdon QuarryHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lodge HollowInert
- Hoddesdon QuarryHouseholdCommercialInert
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.