Cadmore Lane
Inert
Cadmore Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1955 and 1963, covering about 9.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD12310, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12310 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cadmore Lane |
| Address | Metropolitan Police Pit, Watford, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Waterways Board |
| Licence issued | 19 July 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 19 October 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1963 |
| Area | 9.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 537000, 202400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- River Lea WharfInert
- Metropolitan Police PitInert
- River LeaInert
- Turners Hill MarshInert
- Thorogood'sInert
- Thistley MarshInert
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.