Rye Meads Quarry
Inert
Rye Meads Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1981, covering about 0.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD12243, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12243 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rye Meads Quarry |
| Address | Toll Road, Terberts Hill, Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A H Nicholls and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 July 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 March 1982 |
| First waste input | 3 July 1980 |
| Last waste input | 12 October 1981 |
| Area | 0.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 538200, 209800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Stanstead RoadWaste types not recorded
- Glen Faba and RiverfieldsInert
- Glen Faba and RiverfieldsInert
- Rye Meads Gravel PitInert
- Rye Meads Gravel PitInert
- Gravel PitLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.