Land East of A173
IndustrialInert
Land East of A173 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1990, covering about 1.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD05574, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05574 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land East of A173 |
| Address | Great Ayton, North Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G Sweeney Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 August 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 16 February 1990 |
| Area | 1.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 456500, 511900 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Langbaurgh Quarry Landfill and Civic Amenity SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rye HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Airy Holme LaneCommercial
- Disused Quarry at Round HillIndustrialCommercialInert
- Airyholme LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.