Westhorpe Pit
HouseholdCommercialInert
Westhorpe Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1965 and 1992, covering about 2.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD13631, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13631 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westhorpe Pit |
| Address | Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
| Site operator | R W Dodds Limited |
| Licence holder | R W Dodds Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 June 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1992 |
| Area | 2.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 486500, 186800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Westhorpe Farm No.2IndustrialInert
- Westhorpe Park No.2IndustrialInert
- Newtown Pit Ski LaneInert
- Westhorpe Park Area EInert
- Marlow Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Westhorpe FarmInert
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.