Woodford Borrow Pits East and West
Inert
Woodford Borrow Pits East and West is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thrapston, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 12.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD02156, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02156 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Woodford Borrow Pits East and West |
| Address | Near Thrapston, Woodford |
| Site operator | ARC Eastern Limited |
| Licence holder | ARC Eastern Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 July 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1990 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1990 |
| Area | 12.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 498800, 277700 |
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
- Woodford Borrow Pits East and WestInert
- Woodford GrangeInert
- Western RaineInert
- Opposite Factory Premises, Midland RoadIndustrialInert
- Woodford GrangeInert
- Denford Ash 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.