Landfill Check

Rainham Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Rainham Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dartford, Kent. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1997 and 2015, covering about 34.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD35901, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35901
Site nameRainham Quarry
AddressWarwick Lane, Rainham, , Essex
Site operatorAylett Gravel Ltd
Licence holderAylett Gravel Ltd
Licence issued25 July 1997
Licence surrendered3 March 2015
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area34.05 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHerts and North London
Grid reference554700, 182800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.