Godmanchester Landfill
Inert
Godmanchester Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. It received inert waste between 1989 and 2005, covering about 5.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD01468, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01468 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Godmanchester Landfill |
| Address | Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire |
| Site operator | Midland Land Reclamation Limited |
| Licence holder | Midland Land Reclamation Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 August 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 May 2005 |
| First waste input | 10 August 1989 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 526100, 271200 |
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
- Godmanchester LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cow LaneSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Rectory FarmInert
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.