Kettleby Quarry
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Kettleby Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brigg, North Lincolnshire. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1988 and 2005, covering about 17.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD00360, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00360 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kettleby Quarry |
| Address | Kettleby, Brigg, Lincolnshire |
| Site operator | J W Hurdiss Limited |
| Licence holder | J W Hurdiss Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 March 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 May 2005 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 17.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 503900, 408300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barnetby StationIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.