Landfill Check

Barnetby Station

IndustrialHouseholdInert

Barnetby Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brigg, North Lincolnshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1977 and 1994, covering about 5.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD01563, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01563
Site nameBarnetby Station
AddressVictoria Road
Site operatorBritish Rail Eastern Region
Licence holderBritish Rail Eastern
Licence issued20 July 1977
Licence surrendered14 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1977
Last waste input31 December 1994
Area5.65 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference505100, 409500

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.