Wapseys Wood
IndustrialCommercial
Wapseys Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1967, covering about 13.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD13160, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13160 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wapseys Wood |
| Address | Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel Pits |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 November 1967 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 13.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 497200, 189100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsWaste types not recorded
- Richard Biffa (Reclamation) LimitedIndustrialCommercial
- Wapseys WoodWaste types not recorded
- Wapseys WoodSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel PitsIndustrialCommercial
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.