Old Furtho Pit
Inert
Old Furtho Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes. It received inert waste between 1930 and 1990, covering about 1.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD02293, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02293 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Furtho Pit |
| Address | Old Stratford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Merchant Plant Hire |
| Licence issued | 25 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1930 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1990 |
| Area | 1.86 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 477900, 241700 |
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
- Furtho PitInert
- J Harper - Brook FarmIndustrial
- Stratford RoadInert
- Old Lagoons, DeanshangerLiquid / sludgeInert
- R M C Aggregates - PassenhamIndustrial
- Calverton End No.2Waste types not recorded
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.