Historic landfill sites in Mirfield
The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Mirfield. covering roughly 57 hectares in total. The largest is Taylor Hall Lane Landfill at 7.84 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Mirfield (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Hall Lane Landfill | 7.84 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Low Fold Farm | 7.33 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Fletcher Park | 5.87 ha | 1983 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Kirkheaton Brickworks | 4.41 ha | 1983 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Colne Bridge Cutting | 3.91 ha | 1988 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Sludge Drying Beds | 3.61 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Healey Green Lane, Houses Hill | 3.05 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Tandem Industrial Estate | 2.87 ha | — | Inert |
| Hawthorne Way | 2.55 ha | 1999 | CommercialInert |
| Field End Farm | 2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Padanaram Farm | 2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Low Fold Farm | 1.87 ha | 1989 | CommercialInert |
| Linfit Hill | 1.84 ha | — | Inert |
| Healey Green Tip | 1.73 ha | 1972 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Netheroyd Hill Tip | 1.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Disused Railway cutting | 1.28 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.93 ha | 1980 | CommercialInert |
| Field adjacent to Spa Mills | 0.68 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Old Bank Road | 0.67 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.49 ha | 1988 | CommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting West of Dunbottle Lane | 0.49 ha | — | Special |
| The Knowle | 0.48 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Sandsfield | 0.18 ha | — | CommercialInert |
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 Mirfield?
- 23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Mirfield 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 Mirfield?
- 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.