Ashday Works Tip
IndustrialCommercialInert
Ashday Works Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1943 and 1986, covering about 2.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD04103, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04103 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ashday Works Tip |
| Address | Cromwell Bottom, Brighouse |
| Site operator | Yorkshire Diecasting Company Limited |
| Licence holder | The Yorkshire Diecasting Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 January 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 April 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1943 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 2.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 412200, 422500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ash GroveInert
- Elland Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Knowles TipIndustrial
- Manor House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Ash Lagoons, Land at Low FieldsIndustrial
- Calder WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
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.