Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Keighley

The Environment Agency records 70 historic landfill sites in and around Keighley. covering roughly 114 hectares in total. The largest is Manywells Quarry at 14.38 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Manywells Quarry14.38 ha2001IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Low Fold Farm Sites A and B8.66 ha1981Inert
Branshaw Quarry6.78 ha1994CommercialInert
Branshaw Quarry6.77 ha1988CommercialInert
Lees Moor Farm6.34 ha1983CommercialInert
Braithwaite Quarry5.84 ha—Waste types not recorded
Grange Middle School5.51 ha1998CommercialInert
Hallas Rough Quarry, off A6294.38 ha1990Inert
Royd Works3.4 ha1988IndustrialCommercialInert
West Manywells Quarry2.96 ha—CommercialInert
West Manywells Quarry - Intake Farm2.78 ha—CommercialInert
West Manywells Quarry - Intake Farm2.78 ha1988CommercialInert
Keighley RUFC1.88 ha1989IndustrialInert
Field 72551.88 ha1994CommercialInert
Land Fronting Harden Road1.88 ha1977Inert
Ex Railway Cutting1.87 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Nanholes Quarry1.86 ha1989CommercialInert
Lees Moor Quarry1.85 ha1983Liquid / sludgeCommercialInert
Springfield Farm1.76 ha1989CommercialInert
Land adjacent to Royd Way Trailer Park1.71 ha1988CommercialInert
The Sidings1.59 ha1989CommercialInert
Lees Moor Farm - Old Home Reservoir1.56 ha1998IndustrialInert
North View Farm1.55 ha2001Inert
The Former Parkwood Greyhound Racing Stadium1.53 ha1987CommercialInert
North of Marley Road Sewage Treatment Works1.52 ha1989SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
Griff Wood1.43 ha1994CommercialInert
Oakworth Cricket Club1.41 ha1990CommercialInert
Field off Royd Way1.29 ha1980CommercialInert
Railway Cutting1.1 ha2005CommercialInert
Bogthorn Quarry1.04 ha1993CommercialInert
Land near to Tarn House Farm0.97 ha1987CommercialInert
Land at East Manywells Farm0.91 ha2004Inert
Penistone Quarry0.66 ha1986CommercialInert
WASK Engineering Mill Dam0.64 ha1998Inert
The Sidings (North)0.61 ha—Inert
Quarry Top Farm, Lees Moor Quarry0.57 ha—Commercial
Parkwood Boiler Works0.54 ha—Special
Moorside Farm0.51 ha1987CommercialInert
Ogden Lane0.51 ha1979HouseholdInert
Ingrow Cricket Club0.51 ha1998CommercialInert
Norwood House Nursing Home0.49 ha1998CommercialInert
Holme Mills Fell Lane0.48 ha1994IndustrialCommercialInert
Land at Vale Mill0.47 ha1988IndustrialCommercialInert
Holme Mill Pond0.43 ha—Inert
Harden Moor Quarry - Midgeham Quarry0.42 ha1989CommercialInert
Cradle Edge Quarry0.41 ha1993HouseholdCommercial
Whinney Hill Farm0.41 ha1987Inert
Bridgehouse Mills0.4 ha1988Inert
Bingley Roofing Centre0.4 ha1989CommercialInert
Area to South of track to abandoned Haworth Sewage Works0.35 ha—CommercialInert
Haworth Holder Station0.33 ha1990CommercialInert
Far Laith Farm0.32 ha1998Inert
Waxman Dam0.31 ha1988Inert
Becks Road0.29 ha1990IndustrialInert
Royd Quarry0.27 ha1975Inert
Hainworth Shay Farm0.25 ha1986Inert
Marsh0.2 ha1987Waste types not recorded
Buck Park Quarry0.2 ha1991Inert
Goose Eye0.2 ha1977Inert
Land At Thwaites0.2 ha1989IndustrialInert
Holy Trinity School0.2 ha1985Inert
Brown Hill Farm0.19 ha1998CommercialInert
Blackmoor Farm0.18 ha2001Inert
Clough Houses0.15 ha1978HouseholdInert
Pennine Fibre Industries Limited New Mill / Staveley Mill Dam0.11 ha1988CommercialInert
Bridgehouse Lane0.09 ha1987Inert
Disused Quarry0.08 ha1998Inert
Land off Ilkley Road0.06 ha1998Inert
Ebor Mill Dam0.06 ha1988Inert
Hainworth Shaw Farm0.04 ha1984Inert

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 Keighley?
70 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Keighley 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 Keighley?
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.