Landfill Check

Bedfont Pit

Inert

Bedfont Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashford, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1947 and 1992, covering about 12.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD11229, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11229
Site nameBedfont Pit
AddressBedfont, Feltham, Middlesex
Site operatorRutland Hall Limited
Licence holderHales Containers Limited
Licence issued21 June 1984
Licence surrendered2 March 1992
First waste input31 December 1947
Last waste input2 March 1992
Area12.52 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East TH
Grid reference508000, 173100

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.

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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.