Disused Railway outting at Abrahams Hill
Inert
Disused Railway outting at Abrahams Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 0.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD05844, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05844 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway outting at Abrahams Hill |
| Address | Rothwell, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leeds City Council |
| Licence issued | 28 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 March 1986 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1977 |
| Last waste input | 27 October 1978 |
| Area | 0.76 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 434600, 428700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- CMA premisesCommercialInert
- Central Motor AuctionsWaste types not recorded
- Rothwell LaneIndustrial
- Bridge End FarmInert
- Rose Cottage FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bridge End FarmCommercialInert
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.