Historic landfill sites in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. covering roughly 102 hectares in total. The largest is Spring Bank at 29.27 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Grimsby (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Bank | 29.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Macauley Lane Former Landfill Site | 22.51 ha | 1977 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Foreshore Landfill - Pyewipe | 8.9 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Gilbey Road | 7.55 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Greatcoates Road | 6.38 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| No. 3 Landfill | 5.24 ha | — | Industrial |
| Carson Avenue | 4.57 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pyewipe Mills | 3.28 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Courtaulds No 2 Landfill | 2.25 ha | 1980 | IndustrialInert |
| Great Coates Site C | 1.97 ha | — | Industrial |
| Courtaulds No 2 Landfill | 1.93 ha | — | Industrial |
| Convamore Road | 1.64 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Barton Street | 0.9 ha | 1970 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert |
| Ashby Hill Top | 0.81 ha | 1991 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Graving Dock A | 0.7 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Beesby Farm | 0.59 ha | 1977 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Graving Dock B | 0.58 ha | — | Industrial |
| Gunnerby | 0.47 ha | — | Industrial |
| West Ravendale | 0.45 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Herring Slip Area | 0.43 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Wold Newton South | 0.42 ha | — | Industrial |
| Courtaulds No.2 Landfill | 0.39 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Cadeby Hall B | 0.15 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Hatcliffe Top | 0.15 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
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 Grimsby?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Grimsby 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 Grimsby?
- 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.