Historic landfill sites in Bicester, Oxfordshire
The Environment Agency records 15 historic landfill sites in and around Bicester, Oxfordshire. covering roughly 98 hectares in total. The largest is Ardley Fields Farm 2 at 45.96 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Bicester (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardley Fields Farm 2 | 45.96 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ardley Quarry Inert Area | 10.95 ha | — | Inert |
| Ardley Wood | 8.88 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Ardley Wood | 6.82 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Ardley Wood | 6.81 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Disused Tip at Elm Farm Quarry | 6.47 ha | 1975 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Gowell Farm | 3.34 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Manor Farm | 3.11 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Weston Park Farm Extension | 2.87 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| London Road | 1.16 ha | 1969 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Weston Park Farm | 1.06 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bucknell Lodge Farm M40 | 0.32 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Fritwell | 0.21 ha | — | Inert |
| Field Numbers. OS4300 and 6400 | 0.2 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Fringford | 0.17 ha | — | Liquid / 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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Bicester?
- 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bicester 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 Bicester?
- 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.