Eastwoods Tip South Quarry No.1
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Eastwoods Tip South Quarry No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received liquid/sludge, industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1938 and 1982, covering about 0.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD04069, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04069 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Eastwoods Tip South Quarry No.1 |
| Address | Ringby Lane, Pule Hill, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Messrs Chris Wright Baildon Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 August 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1938 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 0.15 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 408700, 428000 |
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.
- 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
- EastwoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Swales Moor RoadSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Eastwoods Tip NorthLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Muktubs (UK) LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Swalesmoor Mink FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- EastwoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.