Mill Chrome
Industrial
Mill Chrome is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Higham Ferrers, North Northamptonshire. It received industrial waste between 1926 and 1984, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD02139, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02139 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mill Chrome |
| Address | Station Road, Higham Ferrers |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A J Van Der Burgh and Company |
| Licence issued | 8 March 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1926 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 495800, 269900 |
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
- Sewage Disposal WorksHouseholdInert
- Station RoadLiquid / sludge
- Stanwick QuarryInert
- Off Finedon RoadInert
- Rushden PitInert
- Rushden and Higham Ferrers BypassInert
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.