Historic landfill sites in Shipley
The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Shipley. covering roughly 65 hectares in total. The largest is Bolton Woods Quarry at 12.15 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Shipley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton Woods Quarry | 12.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Playing Fields | 9.64 ha | 1969 | Household |
| Weather Royd Quarries | 6.33 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Heaton Reservoir | 5.9 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Playing Fields | 5.24 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Powell Road | 4.47 ha | 2001 | Inert |
| Wrose Brow Road Tip | 3.94 ha | 1974 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Heaton Moore School No.2 | 3.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Gaisby Hill | 2.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land to north of Scotchman Road | 2.46 ha | 1990 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Heaton Moore School No.1 | 2.04 ha | — | Household |
| Land at Deep Lane | 1.99 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Leaventhorpe Farm | 1.21 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Clockhouse Playing Fields | 1.1 ha | — | Household |
| Land off Shuttleworth Lane | 0.78 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Land to north of Scotchman Road | 0.76 ha | 1987 | CommercialInert |
| Mill Dam Rear of Victora Works | 0.29 ha | 1986 | CommercialInert |
| Shay Grange Farm | 0.2 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Thornton Road | 0.09 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Shipley Gas Holder | 0.07 ha | 1993 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
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 Shipley?
- 20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Shipley 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 Shipley?
- 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.