Broughton Quarry
IndustrialInert
Broughton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1989, covering about 48.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD01345, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01345 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Broughton Quarry |
| Address | Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | GFX Hartigan Limited |
| Licence holder | GFX Hartigan Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 June 1990 |
| First waste input | 1 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 22 December 1989 |
| Area | 48.65 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 488500, 238700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Middleton South West LandfillIndustrialInert
- Former reservoir Middleton Site10EWaste types not recorded
- Broughton QuarryInert
- Middleton North East LandfillIndustrialInert
- Broughton VillageWaste types not recorded
- Broughton BarnWaste 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.