Goole Fields
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Goole Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 2004 and 2012, covering about 2.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD35815, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35815 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Goole Fields |
| Address | Jerry Lane, Goole, East Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Goole Fields |
| Licence holder | Mytum & Selby Landfill Ltd |
| Licence issued | 13 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 March 2012 |
| First waste input | 8 April 2004 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Yorkshire |
| Grid reference | 448973, 433012 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Dutch RiversideWaste types not recorded
- Hook Pasture LaneIndustrialInert
- Goole DockIndustrialInert
- Holder StationInert
- Fountayne StreetIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Airmyn TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.