Cuxton No.1
Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
Cuxton No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rochester, Medway. It received liquid/sludge, household and inert waste between 1966 and 1988, covering about 11.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD19380, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19380 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cuxton No.1 |
| Address | Cuxton, Kent |
| Site operator | Kent County Council |
| Licence holder | BCI |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1966 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 11.26 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 572600, 167800 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Martin Earles WorksHouseholdInert
- Cuxton No.2 77-84Liquid / sludgeInert
- Sycamore RoadInert
- Martin Earles WorksHouseholdInert
- Temple MarshIndustrialCommercialInert
- Four WentsInert
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.