Fox and Hounds Sandpit
Inert
Fox and Hounds Sandpit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woburn, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 1964 and 2000, covering about 6.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD01344, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01344 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fox and Hounds Sandpit |
| Address | Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | G Moore Haulage Limited |
| Licence holder | Hunters Sand Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 November 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 February 2000 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 6.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 493100, 230400 |
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
- Sandhouse QuarryIndustrialCommercial
- Rammamere FarmWaste types not recorded
- Sand QuarryIndustrialInert
- Sand QuarryIndustrialInert
- Home FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Baker's WoodHouseholdCommercial
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.