Land ar Ravensthorpe Road
CommercialInert
Land ar Ravensthorpe Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dewsbury. It received commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 1.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD04177, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04177 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land ar Ravensthorpe Road |
| Address | Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C R Longley and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 October 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 1.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 422900, 419800 |
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
- C R Longley LtdSpecialIndustrialInert
- Thornhill Power StationIndustrialInert
- Forge LaneIndustrialCommercialInert
- Park RoadWaste types not recorded
- Pilgrim TipLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- Railway CuttingCommercialInert
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.