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Historic landfill sites in Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire

The Environment Agency records 71 historic landfill sites in and around Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. covering roughly 25 hectares in total. The largest is Swinekeld at 1.8 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Driffield (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Swinekeld1.8 ha1990IndustrialInert
Cawkeld Chalk Pit1.78 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Hutton Refuse Disposal Site1.4 ha1979Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Langholme Hill Farm1.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land off Cruckley Lane1.27 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dismantled Railway Cutting1.15 ha1989HouseholdCommercialInert
Disused Pit at Burton Agnes Field0.92 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Microfine Bainton0.66 ha—Waste types not recorded
Nafferton Wold Quarry0.6 ha1976Household
Sandy Lane0.54 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Lathams Pit0.47 ha1990CommercialInert
Burn Butts0.46 ha—Industrial
Disued Pit0.45 ha1990Household
Wold House Farm0.45 ha1985HouseholdCommercialInert
Beverly Road Pit0.44 ha1989HouseholdCommercialInert
Honey Pots0.43 ha—Industrial
Driffield Road0.43 ha1991Inert
Kilham North West0.4 ha—IndustrialInert
Creyke Road0.39 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cowlam Pit No.10.38 ha—IndustrialHousehold
Refuse Tip off Middleton Road0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cottam House0.36 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bainton Roundabout0.36 ha—IndustrialInert
Green Lane0.35 ha1980IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Maidens Cottage0.34 ha—IndustrialInert
Tibthorpe Highways0.32 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Pockthorpe Road0.32 ha1979Inert
Blake Dale Farm0.32 ha1983HouseholdInert
Low Wood Bainton0.32 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disuded Pit off Bridlington Road0.31 ha1994IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Marramatte0.28 ha—Industrial
Leafield Road0.25 ha1993Inert
Weeton Drive0.23 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Chalkpit Farm0.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dunflat Road0.23 ha1948IndustrialInert
Chalk Pit on A614 formally A163 opposite Beacon Farm0.21 ha1981IndustrialInert
Bustard Nest Farm0.21 ha—Industrial
New Road0.21 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cottam Grange0.2 ha—Industrial
Bainton Low Wood0.2 ha—IndustrialHousehold
Hanging Fall0.2 ha—Industrial
Chalet Pit0.19 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Rudston Grange East0.18 ha—Industrial
Garton Slack0.18 ha—Waste types not recorded
Tibthorpe Road - Green Lane Crossroads0.17 ha—IndustrialInert
Bustard Nest Farm0.17 ha—Industrial
Octon East0.17 ha—IndustrialInert
Tibthorpe Grange0.16 ha—Industrial
Pockthorpe Hall0.16 ha—Industrial
North Burton Road0.16 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Octon Reservoir0.16 ha—IndustrialHouseholdInert
Honey Hill0.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pockthorpe Road0.15 ha—Industrial
Turt Hill0.13 ha1981IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tibthorpe West0.13 ha—IndustrialHousehold
Disused Pit South of Octon0.12 ha—IndustrialInert
Negas Eastgate0.12 ha1993Inert
Cowlam Pit No.20.12 ha—Industrial
Spellow Gate0.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cottam Warren Farm0.11 ha—IndustrialInert
Wetwang, Garton Road0.11 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
High Wood0.11 ha1989IndustrialInert
Cottam Grange0.1 ha—Inert
Neswick Farm0.1 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rocklands0.09 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tuft Hill0.09 ha1981IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Burrow Nook0.09 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Harpham0.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Badger Wood0.08 ha—IndustrialHousehold
Harpham0.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bell Mills0.05 ha1983IndustrialInert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Driffield?
71 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Driffield town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Driffield?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.