Cadmore Lane No.2
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Cadmore Lane No.2 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1955 and 1977, covering about 28.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD12296, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12296 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cadmore Lane No.2 |
| Address | Chesunt, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | St Albans Sand and Gravel Company |
| Licence holder | The Cheshunt Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 October 1955 |
| Last waste input | 12 October 1977 |
| Area | 28.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 537300, 203000 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Fishers Green QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Thorogood'sInert
- Fishers Green FarmIndustrialCommercial
- Turnford PitWaste types not recorded
- Brickfield Nursery / Hayes Hill FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Holyfields FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.