Chigborough Quarry
CommercialInert
Chigborough Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Maldon, Essex. It received commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1997, covering about 22.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD01223, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01223 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chigborough Quarry |
| Address | Chigborough Quarry, Chigborough Road, Heybridge |
| Site operator | St Albans Sand and Gravel |
| Licence holder | St Albans Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1997 |
| Area | 22.88 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 587800, 208400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chigborough QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Chigborough QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Salcote Hall and Chigborough FarmIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Chigborough QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Recreation GroundHouseholdCommercial
- Recreation GroundHouseholdCommercial
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.