Historic landfill sites in Grantham, Lincolnshire
The Environment Agency records 32 historic landfill sites in and around Grantham, Lincolnshire. covering roughly 61 hectares in total. The largest is Crabtree Road Landfill Site at 16.36 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Grantham (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree Road Landfill Site | 16.36 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Manor Farm | 5.37 ha | 1979 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Woodnook | 4.33 ha | 1993 | Waste types not recorded |
| Swine Hill Quarry | 4.31 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Sewstern Road | 4.19 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Crabtree Road | 3.13 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Disused Railway Cutting | 2.9 ha | 1987 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Gunby Road Landfill Site | 2.75 ha | — | Inert |
| Crossway Farm | 2.26 ha | — | SpecialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land to West of Ruston Road | 2.17 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Allington Road | 1.73 ha | — | Household |
| Harlaxton Road Bridge | 1.5 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Corner of The Drift and Crabtree Road | 1.43 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Disused Quarry | 1.26 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| West Of Station | 1.1 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Caddy Castings | 0.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whalebone Lane Quarry | 0.83 ha | 1993 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Bridge End Grove | 0.8 ha | — | Inert |
| Little Humby | 0.69 ha | 1976 | Household |
| Great Ponton | 0.58 ha | 1976 | Household |
| Great Ponton | 0.41 ha | 1977 | Household |
| Autumn Park Landfill | 0.38 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Disused Railway | 0.35 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Land Adjacent to Cliff Wood | 0.35 ha | 1976 | Household |
| Old Quarry | 0.25 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| The Quarry | 0.25 ha | — | Inert |
| Somerby Road | 0.2 ha | — | Household |
| Long Street Landfill Site | 0.19 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Bottesford Woolsthorpe Branch | 0.18 ha | 1992 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| O.S. Plot No 4083 | 0.17 ha | 1985 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Carlton Scroop | 0.13 ha | — | Inert |
| Willoughby Moor | 0.06 ha | — | Inert |
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 Grantham?
- 32 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Grantham 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 Grantham?
- 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.