Historic landfill sites in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. covering roughly 158 hectares in total. The largest is Cottage Beck Road at 21.74 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Scunthorpe (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Beck Road | 21.74 ha | 1978 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Winterton Road Tip | 17.65 ha | 1986 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Slag Pit | 15.69 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Jackson Brick Works | 12.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bessemer Way Landfill | 12.02 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Glebe Pit | 10.93 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Winterton Road | 10.58 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| British Steel Corporation Redbourne/Coke Oven Site, Burma Road | 9.49 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Trent Remine | 9.19 ha | 1993 | Industrial |
| Scunthorpe, Bessemer Way | 7.6 ha | — | Inert |
| Normanby Park Slag Bank | 6.97 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Black Bank | 3.83 ha | 1993 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Scotter Road/Parklands | 3.58 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Dragonby Landfill | 2.32 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Dawes Lane Site B - Firth Brown | 2.27 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Scunthorpe Concast | 2.24 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Scunthorpe,- Firth Brown | 1.41 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Grove Wharf | 1.2 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Old British Rail Sidings, Althorpe | 1.17 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Ashby Village | 0.97 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Hornsby & Goodwin Ltd | 0.94 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Dragonby Landfill | 0.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Dragonby Mine | 0.84 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Yaddlethorpe/Bottesford Beck | 0.81 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Anchor Village | 0.57 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Brigg Road | 0.27 ha | 1980 | Industrial |
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 Scunthorpe?
- 26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Scunthorpe 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 Scunthorpe?
- 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.