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Historic landfill sites in Brighouse

The Environment Agency records 45 historic landfill sites in and around Brighouse. covering roughly 79 hectares in total. The largest is Southedge and Stubbins Tip at 13.64 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Southedge and Stubbins Tip13.64 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
Sunnyvale Gardens7.95 ha1994CommercialInert
Bradley Park7.24 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Lower Edge Quarry5.92 ha1985IndustrialInert
Disused Gravel Works4.76 ha1983Liquid / sludgeInert
Refuse Disposal Works3.25 ha1987SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Lower Wynteredge Farm3.24 ha1994CommercialInert
Watson Quarry2.76 ha—Waste types not recorded
J. Blakeborough and Sons Limited Bradley Park Tip2.73 ha—Industrial
Bailiff Bridge Tip2.45 ha1971IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tuck Royd Quarry2.21 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Pond Quarry1.78 ha—Waste types not recorded
Clog Sole Delph1.33 ha1975IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Crow Nest Park (North)1.27 ha—Waste types not recorded
Charles Kershaw1.25 ha—Household
Cock Walk Farm1.17 ha1992Inert
Ex Brookfoot Dyeworks Site1.1 ha1988CommercialInert
Pond Quarry1.09 ha—Industrial
The Lillands1.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
Squire Hill Quarries1.04 ha—Waste types not recorded
Marshall Mono Limited0.99 ha1993IndustrialInert
Kirklees Corn Mill0.89 ha1987Inert
Royd Quarry0.86 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Field Bottom Farm0.84 ha1990CommercialInert
Mill House Farm0.83 ha1976Inert
Pond Quarry0.77 ha—Waste types not recorded
Brighouse Town AFC0.7 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Brookfoot Dyeworks Limited0.68 ha—Industrial
Brackenhall Dam0.64 ha1986CommercialInert
Livingstone Mills0.59 ha1985IndustrialInert
Jay House Farm0.48 ha—Inert
Iredale's Tip0.38 ha1977IndustrialCommercialInert
Stein's Tip0.37 ha1990IndustrialCommercialInert
M H Fabrications0.37 ha—Waste types not recorded
Woodhouse Nurseries0.35 ha1979HouseholdCommercialInert
Birkhouse Lane0.34 ha1989Inert
Former Mill Pond0.32 ha—Inert
Broad Oak Quarry0.28 ha1972Inert
Bottemly and Emerson's Tip0.24 ha1982SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Ashlar Centre0.18 ha1988HouseholdCommercial
Gas Holder0.12 ha1990CommercialInert
Manor House Farm0.09 ha—Waste types not recorded
Firth's Tip0.05 ha—Waste types not recorded
Opposite 47-53 Brow Lane0.02 ha1987Waste types not recorded
Joiners Shop0.02 ha1983Industrial

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 Brighouse?
45 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Brighouse 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 Brighouse?
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.

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