Smeaton Limeworks
IndustrialInert
Smeaton Limeworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Knottingley. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1992, covering about 2.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD05267, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05267 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Smeaton Limeworks |
| Address | Went Edge Road, Kirk Smeaton, North Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Senior Reinforcements Limited |
| Licence holder | Senior Reinforcements Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1992 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1980 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1992 |
| Area | 2.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 449800, 417100 |
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
- Stapleton LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.