Ascott Farm Sandpit
Inert
Ascott Farm Sandpit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1993, covering about 0.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD01008, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01008 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ascott Farm Sandpit |
| Address | Wing Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hall Aggregates (Eastern Counties) Limited - RMC UK Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 August 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 August 1990 |
| Last waste input | 1 March 1993 |
| Area | 0.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 490800, 224000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ascott Farm SandpitInert
- Ledburn SandpitSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- TiddenfootIndustrial
- Grovebury RoadHouseholdInert
- Grovebury QuarryInert
- Grovebury FarmHousehold
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.