Shenley Hill Road
HouseholdCommercial
Shenley Hill Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire. It received household and commercial waste between 1967 and 1978, covering about 6.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD01336, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01336 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shenley Hill Road |
| Address | Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leighton - Linslade Urban District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 October 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 6.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 493700, 227500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Shenley Hill RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Shenley Hill RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Sand PitWaste types not recorded
- Miletree FarmHousehold
- Double Arches QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Chamberlains Barn Sand QuarriesHouseholdInert
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.