Chalk Pit
IndustrialInert
Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hertford, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1976 and 1981, covering about 4.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD12961, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12961 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chalk Pit |
| Address | Bedwell Park Quarry, Bedwell Avenue, Essendon, Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Amipanto Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 17 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1981 |
| Area | 4.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 528300, 208900 |
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
- Chalk PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bedwell AvenueWaste types not recorded
- The AvenueWaste types not recorded
- The AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Bedwell AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Pollards Quarry, HertfordWaste 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.