Orton Works Pit
Inert
Orton Works Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Peterborough, City of Peterborough. It received inert waste between 1960 and 1993, covering about 0.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD01802, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01802 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Orton Works Pit |
| Address | Orton Works, Haddon Way, London Road, Peterborough |
| Site operator | London Brick Company Limited |
| Licence holder | London Brick Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 28 June 1993 |
| Area | 0.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 517000, 293500 |
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
- Orton Works PitInert
- Orton Works PitInert
- London Road All Stage 3Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
- London Road Stages 2 and 3Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Beeby's Brick PitInert
- Beeby's Brick PitInert
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.