Ham Hill
HouseholdCommercialInert
Ham Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Snodland, Kent. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1961 and 1976, covering about 4.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD19836, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19836 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ham Hill |
| Address | Snodland, Kent |
| Site operator | Malling Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Tonbridge and Malling District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1961 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Area | 4.64 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 570300, 161000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sharnal LaneWaste types not recorded
- Brook LaneInert
- New Hythe LaneInert
- Leybourne LakesInert
- New Hythe LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- New Hythe LaneInert
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.