Cowick Road
HouseholdInert
Cowick Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thorne. It received household and inert waste between 1968 and 1988, covering about 0.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD05042, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05042 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cowick Road |
| Address | Snaith |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R and G Thompson and Sons |
| Licence issued | 27 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 September 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1968 |
| Last waste input | 26 September 1988 |
| Area | 0.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 464600, 421900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Cowick RoadWaste types not recorded
- WebfillInert
- Disused QuarryCommercialInert
- South of the M62 MotorwayCommercialInert
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.