Chalk Quarry - Bushy Bit
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Chalk Quarry - Bushy Bit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanscombe, Kent. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1953 and 1972, covering about 2.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD00572, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00572 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chalk Quarry - Bushy Bit |
| Address | North Of Back Lane, Bushy Bit, Aveley |
| Site operator | Edwin Clark Limited |
| Licence holder | E Baker Hauliers Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1953 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 2.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 558900, 179500 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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- Warren PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Motherwell Way - Cliff BatteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.