Rye House Power Station
SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
Rye House Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received special (hazardous), liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1977 and 1983, covering about 6.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD12251, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12251 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rye House Power Station |
| Address | Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Powergen Plc |
| Licence issued | 10 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 June 1983 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1983 |
| Area | 6.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 538800, 208500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Netherhall LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Netherhall LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Hailes Farm / NetherhallInert
- Netherhall Landfill 1Waste types not recorded
- Gravel PitLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Glen Faba and RiverfieldsInert
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.