Danes Graves
Inert
Danes Graves is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received inert waste in 1982, covering about 0.36 hectares. Reference EAHLD05125, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05125 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Danes Graves |
| Address | Cottam |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr J C Franks |
| Licence issued | 7 June 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 October 1984 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1982 |
| Area | 0.36 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 517300, 449400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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.