Old Chalk Pit
Household
Old Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royston, Hertfordshire. It received household waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 0.37 hectares. Reference EAHLD00381, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00381 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Chalk Pit |
| Address | Foxton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cambridge County Council |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1978 |
| Area | 0.37 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 541300, 247800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Chalk Pit (Parish Clunch Pit)Household
- SearroWaste types not recorded
- Seearo Construction Ltd - Barrington Park FarmWaste types not recorded
- Angle LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.