Historic landfill sites in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland
The Environment Agency records 15 historic landfill sites in and around Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland. covering roughly 114 hectares in total. The largest is Land to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269 at 24.21 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Guisborough (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269 | 24.21 ha | 1981 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Dunsdale Extension / Land North of Mount Pleasant Cottages and West of Wilton Lane | 22.71 ha | 1979 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Dunsdale Tip | 12.04 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Carlin Howe Landfill Site | 11.89 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thornton Fields Farm Landfill | 10.02 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Upsall Grange Farm | 9.13 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Langbaurgh Quarry Landfill and Civic Amenity Site | 6.58 ha | 1991 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Airy Holme Lane | 6.29 ha | — | Commercial |
| Tocketts Bridge Farm | 3.48 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Airyholme Lane | 2.5 ha | 1975 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land East of A173 | 1.93 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Rye Hill | 1.88 ha | 1963 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Quarry at Round Hill | 1.05 ha | 1988 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Sandy Lane | 0.36 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Eston Reservoir | 0.25 ha | 1981 | 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 Guisborough?
- 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Guisborough 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 Guisborough?
- 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.