Marston Road Claypit
HouseholdCommercialInert
Marston Road Claypit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ampthill, Central Bedfordshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1962 and 1991, covering about 11.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD00999, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00999 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Marston Road Claypit |
| Address | Lidlington, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Rail |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1962 |
| Last waste input | 17 April 1991 |
| Area | 11.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 499900, 240100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Lidlington BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Rookery Clay PitLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
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.