Rushymead Nursery
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Rushymead Nursery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1964 and 1975, covering about 10.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD10921, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10921 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rushymead Nursery |
| Address | The Mead, Keysers Estate, Lower Nazeing |
| Site operator | Tarmac Roadstone Holdings, A Benson and sons |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 10.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 537700, 206400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Trianglular Field off Nazeing New RoadInert
- Aerodrome QuarryIndustrial
- Broxbourne Gravel PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- New Nazeing RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Green LaneInert
- Broxbourne Old Pit / Arrow YardIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.