Holme Wold East
HouseholdCommercialInert
Holme Wold East is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1947 and 1993, covering about 0.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD04982, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04982 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holme Wold East |
| Address | Home-on-the-Wolds, Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Humberside County Council (Highways) |
| Licence issued | 11 July 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 495400, 446500 |
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.
- 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
- Dalton HolmeLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Lund Parish TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Disused Pit East of Sewage WorksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lockington Thorpe LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Middleton SouthIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.