Cradle Edge Quarry
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Cradle Edge Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received household and commercial waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD03961, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03961 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cradle Edge Quarry |
| Address | Back Shaw Lane, Hainworth Shaw, Keighley |
| Site operator | Craig Coleman |
| Licence holder | Craig Coleman |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 406800, 439100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hainworth Shaw FarmInert
- Moorside FarmCommercialInert
- Nanholes QuarryCommercialInert
- Hainworth Shay FarmInert
- Disused QuarryInert
- Harden Moor Quarry - Midgeham 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.