Leadwell Lane
Industrial
Leadwell Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received industrial waste from 1964, covering about 0.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD35090, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35090 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leadwell Lane |
| Address | Rothwell |
| Site operator | Rothwell Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1964 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433600, 427600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Bridge End FarmCommercialInert
- Bridge End FarmInert
- Land Adjacent to Fat WorksIndustrialInert
- Land adjacent Norbury LimitedCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Cemetery LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.