Landfill Check

Barton Road

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Barton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1948 and 1992, covering about 0.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD01565, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01565
Site nameBarton Road
AddressWooton
Site operatorWooton Parish Council
Licence holderWooton Parish
Licence issued26 July 1977
Licence surrendered31 December 1992
First waste input31 December 1948
Last waste input31 December 1992
Area0.65 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference508100, 416200

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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.