Former Mill Dam at Thirstin Mills Honley
CommercialInert
Former Mill Dam at Thirstin Mills Honley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Holmfirth. It received commercial and inert waste between 1972 and 1982, covering about 0.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD04185, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04185 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Mill Dam at Thirstin Mills Honley |
| Address | Thirstin Road, Lower Thirstin |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Jack Brook Builders Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 August 1980 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1972 |
| Last waste input | 2 August 1982 |
| Area | 0.28 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 413400, 411900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Netherton TipWaste types not recorded
- Scotgate QuarryHousehold
- Berry Brow Tip SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Big ValleyIndustrialCommercialInert
- Big Valley TipIndustrialInert
- Honley Wood QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.