Historic landfill sites in Skipton, North Yorkshire
The Environment Agency records 21 historic landfill sites in and around Skipton, North Yorkshire. covering roughly 57 hectares in total. The largest is Ings Lane Skipton at 14.23 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Skipton (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ings Lane Skipton | 14.23 ha | 1990 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Ings Lane Tip | 8.73 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Halton East Quarries Limited | 7.07 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Cononley Tip | 6.11 ha | 1987 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Roadside Verge | 4.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tarn Moor Memorial Woodland | 4.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lanehead Quarry | 2.42 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Disused Quarry | 1.94 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Skibeden Quarry | 1.5 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tannery Dam | 1.16 ha | — | Industrial |
| Stunstead Tip | 0.96 ha | 1972 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Broughton Hall | 0.84 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Snaygill Quarry | 0.55 ha | 1972 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Thorpe Tip | 0.51 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Skipton Holder Station | 0.49 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Disused Quarry at Hallan Hill | 0.43 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Broughton Copy Farm | 0.42 ha | 1978 | Waste types not recorded |
| Park Head Quarry | 0.41 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| East Corner of Yarnbury | 0.39 ha | — | Household |
| Cowling Township | 0.34 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Station Works Landfill | 0.15 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
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 Skipton?
- 21 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Skipton 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 Skipton?
- 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.