Brigg Riverside (Scawby Brook)
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Brigg Riverside (Scawby Brook) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brigg, North Lincolnshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1948 and 1994, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD34163, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34163 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brigg Riverside (Scawby Brook) |
| Address | Brigg |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Sugar Corporation |
| Licence issued | 16 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 499300, 408500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Grahams SiteWaste types not recorded
- Scawby Brook RiversideIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.