Historic landfill sites in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Marlow, Buckinghamshire. covering roughly 137 hectares in total. The largest is High Heavens at 30.48 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Marlow (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Heavens | 30.48 ha | 1982 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Spade Oak Quarry | 22.35 ha | — | Industrial |
| Westhorpe Park | 17.6 ha | 1983 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Gunthorpe Road | 11.85 ha | 1970 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| New Town Pits West | 8.82 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Marlow Sewage Works | 5.51 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Knowle Hill | 4.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Star Works | 4.4 ha | 1973 | Industrial |
| Westhorpe Farm Lagoon | 4.19 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Wycombe Air Park | 3.27 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Sandy Gates Gravel Pit | 2.97 ha | 1959 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert |
| Westhorpe Pit | 2.96 ha | 1992 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Widdenton Park Wood 2 | 2.73 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Widdenton Park Wood No.1 | 2.7 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bolters End Lane | 2.31 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Westhorpe Park Area E | 2 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Westhorpe Park No.2 | 1.95 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Westhorpe Farm | 1.94 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Westhorpe Farm No.2 | 1.13 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Marlow Road | 0.73 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cutlers Farm | 0.58 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Chalk Pit Farm | 0.31 ha | — | Industrial |
| Westhorpe Farm (Randell) | 0.25 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| New Town Pits East | 0.25 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Channy Grove | 0.24 ha | 1975 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Newtown Pit Ski Lane | 0.2 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Moor Wood | 0.2 ha | 1995 | Inert |
| Staffield House | 0.18 ha | 1959 | Waste types not recorded |
| Near Golden Ball Lane | 0.07 ha | 1975 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bradcutts Lane | 0.07 ha | 1970 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Handleton Common | 0.04 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
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 Marlow?
- 31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Marlow 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 Marlow?
- 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.