Rayment
IndustrialInert
Rayment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1969 and 1981, covering about 0.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD10003, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10003 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rayment |
| Address | Hollybush Close, Potten End |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | E W Rayment |
| Licence issued | 24 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1981 |
| Area | 0.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 502600, 209400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- The LaurelsInert
- The LaurelsInert
- The LaurelsInert
- Potten End HillInert
- Potten End HillInert
- WaterendInert
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.