Disused Railway Cutting
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grantham, Lincolnshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1987, covering about 2.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD00306, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00306 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | North of Buckminster Road, Stainby, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
| Site operator | Cleansing Services Group |
| Licence holder | Cleansing Service Group |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 2.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 490100, 323100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Crabtree RoadHouseholdInert
- Crabtree Road Landfill SiteHouseholdInert
- Gunby Road Landfill SiteInert
- Sewstern RoadInert
- Corner of The Drift and Crabtree RoadHouseholdInert
- Crossway FarmSpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.