Containment Trench
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Containment Trench is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kettering, North Northamptonshire. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste in 1990, covering about 10.29 hectares. Reference EAHLD02216, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02216 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Containment Trench |
| Address | Former Cransley Ironworks, Northampton Road, Kettering |
| Site operator | Wrightways Limited |
| Licence holder | Wrightways Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 January 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 10.29 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 484800, 277500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Trafalger RoadInert
- Land East Of Glebe FarmInert
- Borrow Pit A1 - M1 LinkInert
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.