Landfill Check

Disused Railway

Inert

Disused Railway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grantham, Lincolnshire. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1987, covering about 0.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD00305, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD00305
Site nameDisused Railway
AddressOld Mining Area, Woolsthorpe By Colsterworth, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Site operatorColsterworth Trust Estate
Licence holderColsterworth Trust Estate
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1976
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area0.35 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference492200, 324600

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.

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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.