Landfill Check

Octagon Farm

Waste types not recorded

Octagon Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bedford, Bedford. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1997 and 2011, covering about 14.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD35814, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35814
Site nameOctagon Farm
AddressWillington, Cople, Bedfordshire
Site operatorOctagon Farm
Licence holderLafarge Aggregates Ltd
Licence issued24 December 1997
Licence surrendered1 December 2011
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area14.48 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral
Grid reference509200, 249700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.