Cave Wood
IndustrialInert
Cave Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1987 and 1990, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD12488, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12488 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cave Wood |
| Address | Hedgerly Lane, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C J Wren and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 September 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 496000, 188400 |
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
- Wapseys WoodSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Wapseys WoodSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsIndustrialCommercial
- Wapseys WoodWaste types not recorded
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsWaste types not recorded
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.