Former Gravel Pit
IndustrialInert
Former Gravel Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Neots, Cambridgeshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1981 and 1988, covering about 1.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD01124, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01124 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Gravel Pit |
| Address | 66 The Lane, Wyboston |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Eynesbury Plant Hire Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 October 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 May 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 1.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 516100, 256800 |
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
- The LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- West of A1Waste types not recorded
- Cherry OrchardSpecialHouseholdCommercial
- North Of Forty FarmIndustrial
- Great Northern RoadInert
- Little EndHousehold
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.