Landfill Check

Eleanor Cross Road

Inert

Eleanor Cross Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1939 and 1956, covering about 8.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD12341, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12341
Site nameEleanor Cross Road
AddressWaltham Cross, Hertfordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderTwickenham Sand and Gravel Company Limited
Licence issued30 June 1993
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1939
Last waste input31 December 1956
Area8.31 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference536600, 200100

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.

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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.