Hinxton Landfill Site
Inert
Hinxton Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 11.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD01826, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01826 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hinxton Landfill Site |
| Address | Ellington |
| Site operator | Mineral Resources Limited |
| Licence holder | Mineral Resources Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 July 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 July 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1991 |
| Last waste input | 20 July 1993 |
| Area | 11.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 517400, 272100 |
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
- Burrow 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.