Land adjacent to Light Bank Lock
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Land adjacent to Light Bank Lock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Todmorden. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1987 and 1994, covering about 1.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD04082, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04082 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to Light Bank Lock |
| Address | Walsden, Bottomley, Todmorden |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 5 November 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 October 1994 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1987 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1994 |
| Area | 1.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 393700, 421200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at BellholmeCommercialInert
- Walsden WaterCommercialInert
- Reddyshore Scout GateIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- North Ramsden FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Rear of GaragesIndustrialInert
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.