Litherop Tip
Household
Litherop Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horbury. It received household waste between 1955 and 1971, covering about 1.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD04801, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04801 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Litherop Tip |
| Address | Litherop Lane, Clayton West, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Denby Dale Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Denby Dale Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Area | 1.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427400, 411800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Haigh quarryWaste types not recorded
- Haigh QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.