Sewage Settling Beds
Liquid / sludgeHousehold
Sewage Settling Beds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Spalding, Lincolnshire. It received liquid/sludge and household waste between 1977 and 1983, covering about 1.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD00219, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00219 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sewage Settling Beds |
| Address | Gubboles Drove Tip, Gosberton Fen |
| Site operator | South Holland District Council |
| Licence holder | South Holland District Council |
| Licence issued | 9 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1981 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 1.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 522100, 328300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cheal Bridge TipLiquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
- Fernleigh FarmHousehold
- Bacons LaneCommercial
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.