Cinder Hill
Liquid / sludge
Cinder Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Paddock Wood, Kent. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1976 and 1992, covering about 1.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD19686, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19686 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cinder Hill |
| Address | Five Wents, Tunbridge Wells, Kent |
| Site operator | Southern Water |
| Licence holder | Southern Water Services |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 1.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 565000, 142500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- MatfieldInert
- AldersInert
- Bouncer's BankInert
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.