Bromley Farm Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Bromley Farm Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penistone. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1990, covering about 5.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD30216, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30216 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bromley Farm Quarry |
| Address | Upper Cumberworth, Denby Dale, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W W M Hepworth Landfill Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 January 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 5.98 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 421600, 408800 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Bromley Farm QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Bromley Farm QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Disused QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Junction A635 and A636IndustrialInert
- Bromley WorksWaste types not recorded
- Bromley WorksInert
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.