Milegate
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Milegate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1984 and 1989, covering about 6.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD05759, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05759 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Milegate |
| Address | Brandesburton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sandsfield Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 March 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 October 1990 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1984 |
| Last waste input | 1 May 1989 |
| Area | 6.83 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 512700, 447100 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Fosse Hill Quarry / Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brandesburton Plant PitIndustrialInert
- Brandesburton Plant Pit No.2IndustrialCommercialInert
- Pit FieldIndustrialInert
- Westlands Hill EastIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hill Top HouseLiquid / 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.