Foxholes Quarry
Industrial
Foxholes Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hertford, Hertfordshire. It received industrial waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 7.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD12215, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12215 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Foxholes Quarry |
| Address | Hertford, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Redland Aggregates Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 15 April 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 18 May 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 March 1983 |
| Area | 7.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 534000, 212200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Foxholes FarmInert
- Mead LaneInert
- Mead LaneInert
- Fountain DriveWaste types not recorded
- FairwaysWaste types not recorded
- Presdales PitInert
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.