Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Bingley

The Environment Agency records 56 historic landfill sites in and around Bingley. covering roughly 76 hectares in total. The largest is Dowley Gap at 9.48 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Bingley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Dowley Gap9.48 ha1982Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
West Hills Farm5.4 ha1996CommercialInert
Thornton Tip3.32 ha1980Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hutler Hill2.93 ha—Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Land At Thornton Road2.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
Fields North East Side of Gazeby Hall2.79 ha1992CommercialInert
Law Quarry2.75 ha1974Inert
Land to the South West of Phoenix Foundry2.7 ha1988Inert
Dowley Gap2.61 ha—Liquid / sludge
Crossflatts Link Road2.46 ha1998Liquid / sludgeCommercialInert
Land at Aycliffe Farm2.28 ha1984CommercialInert
Egypt Quarry2.28 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Heaton Park Quarries2.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Marley Hill2.03 ha1998CommercialInert
Black Dyke Quarry1.86 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Blackhills Scout Camp Site1.8 ha1986CommercialInert
Northside of Bungalow and Field on the Opposite Site East of the Road1.62 ha1989CommercialInert
Land at Bradford Road1.61 ha—CommercialInert
Top Bank Quarry1.45 ha1980Inert
Field Nothside1.38 ha1983Inert
Coolgardie1.24 ha1998IndustrialInert
Lower Height Farm1.19 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cross Lea Farm1.12 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Thomas Illingworth's land0.99 ha1983Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Land at New House Farm0.88 ha1997Inert
Thornton Quarries0.82 ha1971IndustrialCommercial
Erlings Works0.82 ha1989Inert
Denholme House Farm0.8 ha1989Inert
The Refuse Tip0.76 ha1984HouseholdInert
Ireland Bridge0.75 ha1990HouseholdInert
Land to the North of Prune Park Lane0.72 ha1994Inert
Land at Bradford Road0.66 ha1990CommercialInert
Castlefields Industrial Estate0.65 ha1998Inert
Keighley Road0.61 ha1988Inert
Prune Park Lane0.59 ha1995Inert
Land off Lady Park Avenue0.56 ha1991Inert
Quarry Saltaire Road0.5 ha1989Inert
Eldrick Crag Farm0.48 ha1996Inert
Nab Wood Grammar School0.48 ha1987Inert
Ellcliffe Quarries0.46 ha—IndustrialInert
Carrick and Fosters0.46 ha1974IndustrialInert
Naylor Myers Builders0.42 ha1990Inert
This-l-do-me Farm0.4 ha1994Inert
Land off Crack Lane0.36 ha1983Inert
Mill Dam0.36 ha—CommercialInert
Clayton Cricket Club0.35 ha1996Inert
Cliffe Delph0.34 ha1975Inert
Town End Recreation Ground - Old Stone Quarries0.33 ha1995Inert
Private Tip0.32 ha1957IndustrialInert
Stony Lane0.3 ha—Inert
Land at Birchenlea Farm0.3 ha1992CommercialInert
Land at Whinney Hill Farm0.28 ha1989CommercialInert
Bingley Auction Mart0.27 ha—Household
Repton Foundry0.26 ha1973IndustrialInert
Land Adjacent to 593 Thornton Road0.17 ha1998HouseholdCommercialInert
Bingley Holder Station0.05 ha1980CommercialInert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Bingley?
56 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bingley town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Bingley?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.