Historic landfill sites in Wetherby
The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Wetherby. covering roughly 49 hectares in total. The largest is Bayram Hill at 21 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Wetherby (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayram Hill | 21 ha | 1995 | Inert |
| Biggin Park | 4.97 ha | — | Inert |
| Old Quarry, Great North Road | 2.5 ha | 1962 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Railway Cutting at Quarry Hill | 2.36 ha | — | Household |
| Brown Moor / High Coney Garth Fields | 2.3 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Openrakes Beck | 2.18 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| High Street | 2.09 ha | — | Household |
| Brickyards Quarry | 1.99 ha | 1984 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Hall Park Road | 1.71 ha | — | Inert |
| Sandfold Quarry | 1.63 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Thorner Sewage Treatment Works | 1.34 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Land off Bramham Road | 1.31 ha | 1988 | Waste types not recorded |
| Firgreen Quarry | 1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| North of Harewood Road | 0.7 ha | 1982 | Household |
| Quarry Plantation | 0.43 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Snosty Quarry | 0.41 ha | 1986 | CommercialInert |
| Albion Street | 0.39 ha | — | Inert |
| Wray Wood Farm | 0.34 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Quarry Farm | 0.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| 31 Bracken Park | 0.18 ha | 1979 | CommercialInert |
| Old Quarry, Clifford Moor Road | 0.16 ha | — | Household |
| Clifford Moor Road | 0.12 ha | — | Household |
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 Wetherby?
- 22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Wetherby 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 Wetherby?
- 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.