Elstow Borrow Pit
Inert
Elstow Borrow Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wixams, Bedford. It received inert waste between 1995 and 1998, covering about 14.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD01101, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01101 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elstow Borrow Pit |
| Address | Medbury Lane, Estow, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C A Blackwell Contracts Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 September 1995 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 January 2003 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1995 |
| Last waste input | 28 January 1998 |
| Area | 14.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 505700, 246900 |
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
- Elstow LandfillSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Elstow BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- EastcottsWaste types not recorded
- South Of New CutIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.