Great Linford Pit
Inert
Great Linford Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes. It received inert waste between 1970 and 1985, covering about 9.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD01326, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01326 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Great Linford Pit |
| Address | Milton Keynes |
| Site operator | Amey Roadstone Corporation Limited |
| Licence holder | AMEY Roadstone Corporation Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 9.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 485000, 243500 |
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
- Great Linford PitWaste types not recorded
- Great Linford PitWaste types not recorded
- Great Linford PitWaste types not recorded
- New Bradwell Council LandfillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.