Historic landfill sites in Selby, North Yorkshire
The Environment Agency records 30 historic landfill sites in and around Selby, North Yorkshire. covering roughly 146 hectares in total. The largest is Barlow Tipping Site at 27.23 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Selby (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barlow Tipping Site | 27.23 ha | 1986 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| South York Landfill Site | 18.73 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Clay Pits, Bawtry Road | 11.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whitley Bridge | 10.84 ha | — | Industrial |
| Croysdale Farm | 9.6 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| British Sugar Corporation Lagoons | 8.49 ha | 1983 | Waste types not recorded |
| Roall Lane | 7.96 ha | 1977 | IndustrialInert |
| Hazelgrove Quarry | 7.13 ha | 1987 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Roall Lane Cross Roads | 6.76 ha | — | Industrial |
| Linwith Lane | 5.09 ha | 1984 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cawood Sandholes | 4.54 ha | 1973 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Longlane NCB | 4.09 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Drax Power Station | 2.71 ha | 1983 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| New Road Landfill Site | 2.52 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Gateforth New Road | 2.27 ha | 1979 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Camblesforth Bypass Tip | 2.04 ha | 1982 | IndustrialInert |
| Pollington Works | 1.9 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Bondgate | 1.76 ha | 1972 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Hensall Railway Crossing | 1.65 ha | 1982 | Waste types not recorded |
| Middleton Quarry | 1.54 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Pollington West | 1.51 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Osgodby Rail Cutting | 1.48 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Skipworth Road | 1.22 ha | — | Household |
| D'Arcy Road | 0.95 ha | 1963 | Waste types not recorded |
| Turnhead Lodge Farm | 0.93 ha | 1994 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Quarry | 0.44 ha | 1986 | CommercialInert |
| Wiston Sandholes | 0.43 ha | 1972 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Gypsy Corner | 0.4 ha | — | Household |
| Hazel Old Lane | 0.2 ha | 1988 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hill Farm | 0.18 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
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 Selby?
- 30 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Selby 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 Selby?
- 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.