Landfill Check

Cow Hey Lane

HouseholdInert

Cow Hey Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hebden Bridge. It received household and inert waste between 1950 and 1990, covering about 0.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD34841, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34841
Site nameCow Hey Lane
AddressWalshaw, Hebden Bridge
Site operatorLord Savile's Estate
Licence holderLord Saville
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1950
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area0.76 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference397600, 431100

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.