Crane Mead
Inert
Crane Mead is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ware, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1992, covering about 1.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD12208, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12208 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Crane Mead |
| Address | Ware, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | D Wickham and Compny Limited |
| Licence holder | D Wickham and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 February 1992 |
| First waste input | 14 June 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 February 1992 |
| Area | 1.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 536500, 213700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Presdales PitInert
- FairwaysWaste types not recorded
- Watton RoadIndustrial
- Ware QuarryHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ware QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Ware QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.