Oakwood Nursery
Industrial
Oakwood Nursery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1980, covering about 1.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD09985, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09985 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oakwood Nursery |
| Address | Hammond Street, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 12 October 1977 |
| Last waste input | 3 September 1980 |
| Area | 1.1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Exempt |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 531800, 204300 |
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
- Lucus House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Beaumont RoadInert
- Tyersley FarmWaste types not recorded
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.