Theobalds Lane-A10
Industrial
Theobalds Lane-A10 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. It received industrial waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD12333, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12333 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Theobalds Lane-A10 |
| Address | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Broxbourne Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 October 1985 |
| First waste input | 21 October 1982 |
| Last waste input | 28 October 1985 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 535200, 201000 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Park LaneSpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Theobolds GroveInert
- Bury Green FarmIndustrial
- Trinity Lane South AllotmentsInert
- Trinity Lane South AllotmentsWaste types not recorded
- Britannia NurseriesInert
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.