Lees Moor Farm - Old Home Reservoir
IndustrialInert
Lees Moor Farm - Old Home Reservoir is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1998, covering about 1.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD03963, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03963 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lees Moor Farm - Old Home Reservoir |
| Address | Off Halifax Road, Keighley |
| Site operator | Oxenhope Engineering Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 August 1982 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1998 |
| Area | 1.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 404900, 438700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lees Moor FarmCommercialInert
- Quarry Top Farm, Lees Moor QuarryCommercial
- Lees Moor QuarryLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Bogthorn QuarryCommercialInert
- Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- Area to South of track to abandoned Haworth Sewage WorksCommercialInert
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.