Disused Railway Cutting
IndustrialCommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dewsbury. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1994, covering about 1.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD04179, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04179 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Hall Lane, Thornhill, Near Dewsbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Harlow and Milner Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 May 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1979 |
| Last waste input | 26 May 1994 |
| Area | 1.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425600, 419100 |
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
- Hall Lane Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- The CombsCommercialInert
- The CommonCommercial
- Disused Railway Cutting and Gully at Parkhouse FarmCommercialInert
- Tipping SiteWaste types not recorded
- Runtlings TipIndustrialCommercial
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.