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Historic landfill sites in Stotfold, Central Bedfordshire

The Environment Agency records 9 historic landfill sites in and around Stotfold, Central Bedfordshire. covering roughly 88 hectares in total. The largest is Wheelform Properties - Etonbury Farm at 24.26 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Wheelform Properties - Etonbury Farm24.26 haWaste types not recorded
Cityfields Farm20.45 ha1981IndustrialInert
South Of The Grange12.09 ha1980Inert
Disused Clay Pit11.88 ha1998IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cityfields Farm9.62 ha1971Inert
Dingemans4.43 ha1990Inert
Off Wrayfields2.58 ha1967Inert
Green Lagoon Near Fairfield Hospital2.02 ha1964Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
The Spinney0.79 haWaste 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 Stotfold?
9 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stotfold 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 Stotfold?
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.

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