Carthagena Road
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Carthagena Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Potton, Central Bedfordshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1965 and 1981, covering about 20.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD00994, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00994 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Carthagena Road |
| Address | Deepdale Potton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | AMEY Roadstone Corporation Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 May 1965 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1981 |
| Area | 20.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 521200, 248700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- DeepdaleIndustrialCommercial
- Hatley RoadIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.