Moor Fall Farm
IndustrialCommercialInert
Moor Fall Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 5.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD04067, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04067 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Moor Fall Farm |
| Address | Ploughcroft Lane, Boothtown, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Parkinson and Spencer Refractories Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 July 1990 |
| First waste input | 9 November 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1985 |
| Area | 5.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 409000, 426900 |
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.
- 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
- Reflecting Roadstuds LimitedIndustrial
- Ladyship MillsInert
- Scout QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Swalesmoor InnIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Swalesmoor Road LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Ringby QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
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.