Milking Hill Quarry
CommercialInert
Milking Hill Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received commercial and inert waste between 1972 and 1978, covering about 1.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD31853, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31853 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Milking Hill Quarry |
| Address | Ashday Lane, Southowram |
| Site operator | PM Curran and F Simpson |
| Licence holder | Simpson and Curran |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 March 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 1.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 411400, 423300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Grange House QuarryIndustrial
- Milking Hill TipsLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cote Hill Farm QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Land Next to Sunday SchoolCommercialInert
- Pinnar Lane QuarriesCommercialInert
- Within FieldsWaste types not recorded
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.