Historic landfill sites in Rothwell
The Environment Agency records 55 historic landfill sites in and around Rothwell. covering roughly 265 hectares in total. The largest is Primrose Lane at 35.89 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Rothwell (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primrose Lane | 35.89 ha | 1989 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Lofthouse Hill Golf Course | 35.1 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Halton Dene | 19.9 ha | 1980 | HouseholdCommercial |
| No.1 Lagoon | 16.08 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Fleet Bridge Street Works | 13.23 ha | 1976 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Thwaite Farm | 11.58 ha | 1990 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert |
| Land off Lee Moor Lane | 10.49 ha | 1982 | CommercialInert |
| Lemonroyd | 8.35 ha | — | Commercial |
| Land Bounded by The Rein | 8.32 ha | — | Inert |
| Lee Moor Lane | 7.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lofthouse Gate Landfill | 7.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Skelton Grange Power Station | 5.68 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Rockwood Road | 5.64 ha | — | Inert |
| Halton Moor | 5.63 ha | 1982 | CommercialInert |
| Rose Cottage Farm | 5.23 ha | 1990 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| East Bank of Wyke Beck | 4.78 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| CMA premises | 4.67 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Armitages Quarry | 4.63 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thorpe Quarry | 4.37 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Halton Moor No 3 | 4.17 ha | 1970 | Household |
| A642-M62 Newmarket Interchange | 4.12 ha | — | Inert |
| Halton Moor No 2 | 3.87 ha | 1970 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold |
| Central Motor Auctions | 3.66 ha | 1969 | Waste types not recorded |
| Pottery Lane | 2.81 ha | — | Inert |
| Bridge End Farm | 2.79 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| York Road | 2.76 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bell Hill | 2.26 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Link Road | 1.91 ha | — | Inert |
| Land At Knostrop Sewage Works | 1.83 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Land Adjacent to Fat Works | 1.67 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Land adjacent Norbury Limited | 1.67 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Knowsthorpe Way | 1.55 ha | — | Inert |
| Cemetery Lane | 1.5 ha | 1962 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Rodillians RUFC | 1.31 ha | 1982 | CommercialInert |
| Rodillians RUFC | 1.31 ha | 1987 | CommercialInert |
| Grange Farm | 1.1 ha | 1989 | CommercialInert |
| Yorkshire Imperial Metals | 1.01 ha | — | Industrial |
| Rothwell Lane | 0.95 ha | — | Industrial |
| Disused Railway outting at Abrahams Hill | 0.76 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Thwaite Farm | 0.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bridge End Farm | 0.74 ha | 1987 | CommercialInert |
| Small lagoon | 0.71 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Small Lagoon | 0.69 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| To the West of Quarry Hill | 0.63 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| North of Haigh Gardens and St Georges Avenue | 0.62 ha | 1990 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield Road | 0.61 ha | 1981 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Green Lane | 0.61 ha | — | Inert |
| Rear of 215 Bottomboat Lane | 0.46 ha | 1994 | CommercialInert |
| IMI Yorkshire Alloys Limited | 0.45 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Patrick Green | 0.34 ha | — | Inert |
| Killingbeck Hospital | 0.33 ha | 1969 | SpecialCommercial |
| Waterloo Main Colliery | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Rear of 215 Bottomboat Road | 0.2 ha | 1984 | CommercialInert |
| Leadwell Lane | 0.16 ha | — | Industrial |
| Haigh Park Road | 0.16 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial |
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 Rothwell?
- 55 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Rothwell 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 Rothwell?
- 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.