Pollington Works
IndustrialInert
Pollington Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Selby, North Yorkshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1994, covering about 1.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD05764, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05764 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pollington Works |
| Address | Pollington, North Humberside |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | ARC Concrete Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 1 May 1994 |
| Area | 1.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 461800, 419600 |
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
- Longlane NCBIndustrialInert
- Middleton QuarryInert
- Pollington WestWaste types not recorded
- South of the M62 MotorwayCommercialInert
- Disused QuarryCommercialInert
- Hill FarmIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.