Disued Pit
Household
Disued Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received household waste between 1930 and 1990, covering about 0.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD05056, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05056 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disued Pit |
| Address | Syn Dale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Thwing and Octon Parish Council |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1930 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1990 |
| Area | 0.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 504300, 470400 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Octon EastIndustrialInert
- Disused Pit South of OctonIndustrialInert
- Thwing NorthIndustrialInert
- Octon ReservoirIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.