Landfill Check

Brotherton Ings Ash Disposal Site

Waste types not recorded

Brotherton Ings Ash Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Knottingley. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1977 and 2010, covering about 50.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD35706, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35706
Site nameBrotherton Ings Ash Disposal Site
AddressOff High Street, Knottingley, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire
Site operatorBrotherton Ings Ash Disposal Site
Licence holderBrotherton Ings Ash Disposal Site
Licence issued22 August 1977
Licence surrendered12 January 2010
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area50.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaYorkshire
Grid reference447861, 426006

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

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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.