Disused Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Disused Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Meltham. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1991, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD04188, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04188 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Quarry |
| Address | Harrison Lane, Crosland Edge, Meltham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr L Haigh |
| Licence issued | 1 June 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 410700, 411600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Meltham Mills Holder StationCommercialInert
- Woodbottom TipSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- On land at the end of Mean LaneIndustrialCommercial
- Woodbottom FarmCommercialInert
- Honley Wood QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Jubilee QuarriesCommercialInert
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.