Land at Mill Dam Lane
Inert
Land at Mill Dam Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pontefract. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1993, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD03746, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03746 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Mill Dam Lane |
| Address | Monkhill, Pontefract |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wilkinsons Furniture Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 24 October 1972 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1993 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 446100, 422500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Monk Hill Lane BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Park Refuse SiteHouseholdCommercialInert
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.