Prestons Pit
Inert
Prestons Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Corby, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 0.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD01996, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01996 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Prestons Pit |
| Address | Weldon |
| Site operator | Commission For The New Towns |
| Licence holder | Commission For New Towns |
| Licence issued | 9 August 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 January 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 490900, 289100 |
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
- Refractory TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Weldon Road Old Southern PondsLiquid / sludgeInert
- Refractory tipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Barn Close QuarrySpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Barn Close QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ironpits Wood QuarryInert
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.