Whisby Pit
Industrial
Whisby Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near North Hykeham, Lincolnshire. It received industrial waste from 2000, covering about 5.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD35958, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35958 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whisby Pit |
| Address | Whisby Road, Skellingthorpe, , Lincolnshire |
| Site operator | Lincoln Castings Ltd (in Liquidation) |
| Licence holder | Lincoln Castings Ltd (in Liquidation) |
| Licence issued | 20 October 2000 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lincs and Northants |
| Grid reference | 493000, 367300 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- George Fischers Factory LandfillIndustrial
- Whisby Moor QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Hykeham Quarry Landfill (superseded By 73214)Special
- Whisby Moor QuarryInert
- Junction of A46 and Whisby RoadWaste types not recorded
- Whisby Moor 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.