Landfill Check

Totternhoe Knolls Quarry

Inert

Totternhoe Knolls Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1997, covering about 4.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD12553, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12553
Site nameTotternhoe Knolls Quarry
AddressLower End, Totternhoe, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderTotternhoe Lime and Stone Company Limited
Licence issued24 July 1990
Licence surrendered14 April 1997
First waste input16 November 1988
Last waste input31 March 1997
Area4.19 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference498000, 222100

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.

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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.