Manywells Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Manywells Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1960 and 2001, covering about 14.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD03947, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03947 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Manywells Quarry |
| Address | Manywells Brow, Cullingworth, Bradford, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | George Greenwood and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Wastepoint Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 June 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 2001 |
| Area | 14.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 406600, 435900 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Land at East Manywells FarmInert
- North View FarmInert
- Bingley Roofing CentreCommercialInert
- West Manywells Quarry - Intake FarmCommercialInert
- West Manywells QuarryCommercialInert
- West Manywells Quarry - Intake FarmCommercialInert
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.