Marlow Road
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Marlow Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1993, covering about 0.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD13618, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13618 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Marlow Road |
| Address | Cadmore End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lesters Building Supplies |
| Licence issued | 2 October 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 14 March 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 479300, 192500 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bolters End LaneInert
- Handleton CommonWaste types not recorded
- Cutlers FarmInert
- Moor WoodInert
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.