Hall Lane Railway Cutting
CommercialInert
Hall Lane Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dewsbury. It received commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD04210, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04210 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hall Lane Railway Cutting |
| Address | Hall Lane, Thornhill, Dewsbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Savile Estate |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 March 1980 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1978 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1980 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425800, 419000 |
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
- Disused Railway CuttingIndustrialCommercialInert
- The CombsCommercialInert
- The CommonCommercial
- Disused Railway Cutting and Gully at Parkhouse FarmCommercialInert
- Tipping SiteWaste types not recorded
- Ossett Holder StationCommercialInert
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.