Historic landfill sites in Cleckheaton
The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Cleckheaton. covering roughly 55 hectares in total. The largest is Spen Steelworks Site No.2 - Roundhill at 5.49 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Cleckheaton (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spen Steelworks Site No.2 - Roundhill | 5.49 ha | 1993 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Cliffe Hollins Lane | 4.76 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land off Blake Law Lane | 3.8 ha | — | Commercial |
| Waggon House Farm | 2.99 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Land adjoining Windy Bank Lane | 2.88 ha | 1993 | CommercialInert |
| Land off Cliffe Lane | 2.88 ha | 1981 | CommercialInert |
| Cliffe Hollins Lane | 2.88 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Chatts Wood | 2.63 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Whitehall Road Tip | 2.47 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Rawfolds | 2.21 ha | — | Inert |
| Land to the North of Cliffe Lane Gomersal | 2.11 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Land off Whitehall Road | 2.03 ha | 1994 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Off Hunsworth Lane | 1.98 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Top Tip | 1.97 ha | — | Industrial |
| Stead Road | 1.64 ha | 1998 | Inert |
| Tong Moor Railway Cutting | 1.55 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Low Tip | 1.4 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Gikan Steelco | 1.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Cliffe Hollins Lane | 1.16 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cliffe Lane | 1.04 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Land off Hunsworth Lane | 1.02 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Oakenshaw Spinning Mills | 1 ha | 1989 | CommercialInert |
| Spen Steelworks Site 1 | 0.81 ha | 1979 | CommercialInert |
| Moorlands Road | 0.7 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at New Toftshaw | 0.7 ha | 2003 | Inert |
| Land off Whitehall Road | 0.36 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Pyenot Hall Works | 0.29 ha | — | Industrial |
| Spen Lane | 0.27 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Dismantled Railway | 0.24 ha | 1998 | Inert |
| Land at the north of F W Birkett and Sons Limited | 0.19 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Mann Dam | 0.06 ha | — | Commercial |
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 Cleckheaton?
- 31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Cleckheaton 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 Cleckheaton?
- 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.