Brickyard Quarry
Inert
Brickyard Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 2010 and 2017, covering about 3.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD36018, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36018 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brickyard Quarry |
| Address | Grovebury Road, Spur,Leighton Buzzard,Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Clark Contracting Ltd |
| Licence holder | Clark Contracting Ltd |
| Licence issued | 23 March 2007 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 June 2017 |
| First waste input | 30 December 2010 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cambs and Bedfordshire |
| Grid reference | 492210, 223700 |
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
- Grovebury FarmHousehold
- Grovebury TipWaste types not recorded
- Grovebury RoadHouseholdInert
- Grovebury QuarryInert
- Grovebury RoadWaste types not recorded
- Quarry Grovebury RoadIndustrialInert
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.