Landfill Check

Crawstone Hall Wood

Liquid / sludgeInert

Crawstone Hall Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1967 and 1982, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD34853, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34853
Site nameCrawstone Hall Wood
AddressDog Lane, Rochdale Road, Greetland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderH Lumb
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1967
Last waste input31 December 1982
Area0.41 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference407200, 421300

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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.