Forge Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Forge Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1970 and 1978, covering about 8.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD03600, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03600 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Forge Quarry |
| Address | Abbey Road, Leeds |
| Site operator | Biffa Limited |
| Licence holder | Biffa Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 February 1980 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1970 |
| Last waste input | 24 November 1978 |
| Area | 8.53 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425200, 436600 |
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
- Briggs QuarryInert
- Vesper RoadHousehold
- Cragside WalkLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Land adjacent to Leeds and Bradford RoadCommercialInert
- Opposite Outwood HouseIndustrialCommercialInert
- Apex QuarryWaste types not recorded
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.