Waltham Marshes
IndustrialCommercialInert
Waltham Marshes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1959 and 1977, covering about 35.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD10945, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10945 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Waltham Marshes |
| Address | Waltham Abbey, Essex |
| Site operator | St Albans Sand and Gravel |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Area | 35.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 537300, 201200 |
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.
- 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
- Cheshunt MarshIndustrialCommercialInert
- Cheshunt MarshIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Hall MarshInert
- Cheshunt Marsh NorthInert
- Britannia NurseriesInert
- Trinity Lane South AllotmentsInert
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.