Knotford Nook
CommercialInert
Knotford Nook is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Otley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 1994, covering about 14.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD03551, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03551 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knotford Nook |
| Address | Pool Road, Otley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leeds and District ASA |
| Licence issued | 21 March 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 February 1990 |
| Last waste input | 7 February 1994 |
| Area | 14.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 422500, 446100 |
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
- Knotford NookHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pool Road, OtleyIndustrialCommercialInert
- Brick House FarmInert
- Pool Paper MillsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- East Busk LaneCommercialInert
- East Busk LaneInert
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.