Historic landfill sites in Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire. covering roughly 11 hectares in total. The largest is Market Weighton Bypass at 3.63 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Market Weighton (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Weighton Bypass | 3.63 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Disused Pit off Driffield Road | 1.01 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Arras Hill, Market Weighton East | 0.73 ha | — | Industrial |
| Dale Road | 0.58 ha | — | Industrial |
| Towthorpe Cutting | 0.53 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Pit Hills Pit | 0.32 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Holme Wold East | 0.31 ha | 1993 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Towthorpe Quarry | 0.3 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Village Pit | 0.3 ha | 1983 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Huggate West | 0.29 ha | 1978 | IndustrialInert |
| Hessleskew | 0.23 ha | — | Industrial |
| Huggate Far East | 0.21 ha | — | Industrial |
| Land off Main Street | 0.21 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Warter Road | 0.2 ha | 1987 | Liquid / sludgeHousehold |
| Towthorpe Roundabout | 0.19 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Dalton Holme | 0.18 ha | 1985 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| South Side of Warter Road | 0.16 ha | 1987 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Totter Down | 0.14 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Arras Farm | 0.14 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Market Weighton | 0.13 ha | 1977 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Farberry Garth Farm | 0.13 ha | 1980 | Industrial |
| Kipling House | 0.12 ha | — | Industrial |
| Tibthorpe Far West | 0.11 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Harswell | 0.09 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Fox Covert | 0.09 ha | — | Industrial |
| Middleton South | 0.09 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Middleton Wold | 0.07 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
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 Market Weighton?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Market Weighton 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 Market Weighton?
- 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.