Opposite Factory Premises, Midland Road
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Opposite Factory Premises, Midland Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thrapston, North Northamptonshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1988, covering about 1.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD02159, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02159 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Opposite Factory Premises, Midland Road |
| Address | Midland Road, Thrapston |
| Site operator | Smith and Grace Screw Boss |
| Licence holder | Smith and Grace Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 September 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1988 |
| Area | 1.86 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 499300, 278300 |
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
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.