Chalk Quarry
IndustrialCommercial
Chalk Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanscombe, Kent. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 5.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD01263, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01263 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chalk Quarry |
| Address | Chalk Quarry, Motherwell Way, West Thurrock |
| Site operator | Olley (South Ockendon) Limited |
| Licence holder | Olley South Ockendon Limited, Rainham |
| Licence issued | 5 August 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 5.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 558400, 179300 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Chalk Quarry - Bushy BitIndustrialCommercial
- Chalk QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Pilgrims LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Chafford HundredInert
- No. 4 Chalk QuarryIndustrial
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.