Valence End
Inert
Valence End is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1998, covering about 10.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD01299, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01299 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Valence End |
| Address | Valence End, Whipsnade, off Bison Hill, Eaton Bray, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | J Deakin |
| Licence holder | Whipsnade Wild Animal Park |
| Licence issued | 1 February 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 July 2000 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1998 |
| Area | 10.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 499600, 218300 |
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
- Disused Chalk PitInert
- Icknield Way FarmInert
- Shepherds FarmWaste types not recorded
- EdlesboroughIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- London Gliding ClubWaste types not recorded
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.