Refuse Tip off Quakefield Lane
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Refuse Tip off Quakefield Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Retford, Nottinghamshire. It received household and commercial waste from 1959, covering about 0.97 hectares. Reference EAHLD22089, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22089 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Refuse Tip off Quakefield Lane |
| Address | Quakefield Lane, Newark, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | East Retford Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | East Retford Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.97 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 474600, 372500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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.