Byfield
Inert
Byfield is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Daventry, West Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1990, covering about 1.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD02058, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02058 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Byfield |
| Address | Daventry, Northhamptonshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C W Laurie and Son |
| Licence issued | 22 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1990 |
| First waste input | 2 November 1982 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1990 |
| Area | 1.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 450900, 252800 |
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
- Byfield No.2Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
- Byfield, Old Railway CuttingSpecialLiquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
- Byfield No.1Liquid / sludgeInert
- Marley FieldInert
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.