Landfill Check

Disused Pit off Burton Agnes Balk

Liquid / sludgeIndustrial

Disused Pit off Burton Agnes Balk is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD05077, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05077
Site nameDisused Pit off Burton Agnes Balk
AddressRudston, Yorkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.13 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteExempt
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference509800, 466600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.