Boston Landfill Site
Special
Boston Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Boston, Lincolnshire. It received special (hazardous) waste from 1993, covering about 47.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD35808, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35808 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Boston Landfill Site |
| Address | Slippery Gowt Lane, Boston, Wyberton, Lincolnshire |
| Site operator | Boston Landfill Site |
| Licence holder | Lincwaste Ltd |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 47.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern |
| Grid reference | 534800, 341300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Boston Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Golf CourseLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Former Salvage DepotInert
- Bath Garden AreaInert
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.