Church Lane
HouseholdCommercialInert
Church Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1938 and 1976, covering about 0.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD12973, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12973 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Church Lane |
| Address | Wormley, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Toveway Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 June 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1938 |
| Last waste input | 25 October 1976 |
| Area | 0.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 535200, 206200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Church LaneWaste types not recorded
- Church LaneWaste types not recorded
- Corneles GreenInert
- Church LaneWaste types not recorded
- Church LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wormley Bury FarmWaste 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.