Sludge Beds
Waste types not recorded
Sludge Beds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1925 and 1986, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD01810, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01810 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sludge Beds |
| Address | Cadbury Park Farm, Impington |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cadbury Typhoo Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1925 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 543100, 262800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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.