How many former landfill sites are there in Amersham?

3 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Amersham town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.

How do I check a specific address in Amersham?

Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Historic landfill sites in Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Name: EA Historic Landfill Sites
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence

The Environment Agency records 3 historic landfill sites in and around Amersham, Buckinghamshire. covering roughly 15 hectares in total. The largest is London Road Landfill at 8.38 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Amersham (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

Site	Area	Last input	Waste types
London Road Landfill	8.38 ha	1968	IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Round Dell Wood	4.45 ha	1974	HouseholdInert
Froghall Brickworks Landfill	2.41 ha	1972	HouseholdCommercialInert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Amersham?: 3 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Amersham town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Amersham?: Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.