Mill House Industrial Estate
Inert
Mill House Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sowerby Bridge. It received inert waste in 1988, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD34863, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34863 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mill House Industrial Estate |
| Address | Off Rochdale Road, Sowerby Bridge |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A G Greenwood |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 March 1988 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1988 |
| Area | 0.23 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 404700, 422500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Millhouse DyeworksWaste types not recorded
- Stansfield Mill DamInert
- Thorpe GarageIndustrialInert
- Hollins Mill LaneLiquid / sludge
- High Royd WoodLiquid / sludge
- Ripponden WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.