How many former landfill sites are there in Woburn Sands?

15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Woburn Sands 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 Woburn Sands?

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 Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes

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 15 historic landfill sites in and around Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes. covering roughly 360 hectares in total. The largest is Brogborough Landfill at 151.32 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

Site	Area	Last input	Waste types
Brogborough Landfill	151.32 ha	1984	SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Woburn Road	151.32 ha	1986	SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Broughton Barns	15.96 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Broughton Grounds	15.43 ha	1993	Inert
Broughton Grounds	9.77 ha	1984	Inert
The Grove	3.15 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Land adjacent to A5 Little Brickhill Bypass No.1	2.42 ha	1994	IndustrialInert
Land adjacent to Little Brickhill Bypass No.1	2.12 ha	1994	IndustrialInert
Church Farm	1.66 ha	1986	Inert
The Warren	1.51 ha	1979	Industrial
Aspley Guise Recreation Ground	1.48 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Broomhills Wood	1.42 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Disused Sand Pit	1.3 ha	1987	Industrial
North-South Runway	0.42 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
North-South Runway	0.19 ha	—	Inert

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 Woburn Sands?: 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Woburn Sands 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 Woburn Sands?: 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.