Grovebury Tip
Waste types not recorded
Grovebury Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1940 and 1985, covering about 12.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD00964, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00964 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grovebury Tip |
| Address | Off Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 12.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 492500, 223900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Grovebury FarmHousehold
- Grovebury RoadWaste types not recorded
- Brickyard QuarryInert
- Stanbridge RoadWaste types not recorded
- Grovebury RoadHouseholdInert
- Grovebury QuarryInert
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.