Cowersley Lane Quarry
CommercialInert
Cowersley Lane Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Meltham. It received commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1994, covering about 1.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD04182, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04182 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cowersley Lane Quarry |
| Address | Cowersley Lane, Linthwaite, Huddersfield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Messrs Conroy and Booth |
| Licence issued | 7 April 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1997 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 1.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 410200, 414500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- The FollyLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Blackmoorcroft RoadInert
- Crosland MoorIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land west of Lock 12 and to the south of Huddersfield Narrow CanalLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- QuarryCommercialInert
- Dunnock QuarryCommercialInert
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.