Sheepcote Quarry
Inert
Sheepcote Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste from 1964, covering about 10.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD01293, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01293 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sheepcote Quarry |
| Address | Woburn Road, Heath and Reach, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Chalkshift Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 10.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 492200, 228600 |
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
- Baker's WoodHouseholdCommercial
- Home FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Linslade RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Leighton Buzzard Golf CourseLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Oak Bank SchoolInert
- Double Arches QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.