Former Sidings British Rail
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Former Sidings British Rail is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hebden Bridge. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste in 1987, covering about 1.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD04063, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04063 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Sidings British Rail |
| Address | Adjacent to Scout Road, Mytholmroyd |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, Town Planning Department |
| Licence issued | 20 March 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 June 1993 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 1.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 401700, 425700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Scout RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Han Royd DelphCommercialInert
- Land adjoining Stoney Springs MillCommercialInert
- Scotland QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Carr LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Thorney LaneCommercialInert
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.