Disused Sand Pit
Industrial
Disused Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes. It received industrial waste between 1964 and 1987, covering about 1.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD00996, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00996 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Sand Pit |
| Address | The Warren, Mill Lane, Aspley Guise |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | F and R Cawley Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 April 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 December 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1964 |
| Last waste input | 8 June 1987 |
| Area | 1.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 493500, 236200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- The WarrenIndustrial
- Aspley Guise Recreation GroundWaste types not recorded
- The GroveWaste types not recorded
- Woburn LaneWaste 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.