West Most Pit
Inert
West Most Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire. It received inert waste between 1948 and 1992, covering about 1.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD01574, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01574 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Most Pit |
| Address | Barrow Haven |
| Site operator | W M Foster and Sons |
| Licence holder | W M Foster and Sons |
| Licence issued | 6 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 20 February 1992 |
| Area | 1.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 506300, 423400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Goxhill TileriesInert
- Mill FarmInert
- Oxford Grange FarmInert
- Spring FarmInert
- Barrow HannIndustrial
- New HollandIndustrial
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.