Thomas Street and St Nicholas Tip
Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Thomas Street and St Nicholas Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near York, York. It received liquid/sludge and commercial waste until 1973, covering about 17.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD31766, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31766 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Thomas Street and St Nicholas Tip |
| Address | York, North Yorkshire |
| Site operator | York County Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 16 January 1973 |
| Area | 17.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 461500, 451700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bartrams TipWaste types not recorded
- Tang Hall and Fifth AveWaste types not recorded
- Bull LaneWaste types not recorded
- Huntington RoadWaste types not recorded
- Fulford FieldsWaste types not recorded
- DanesmeadWaste types not recorded
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.