Newton Tip
IndustrialInert
Newton Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castleford. It received industrial and inert waste from 1960, covering about 0.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD31857, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31857 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Newton Tip |
| Address | Ledston, Castleford, Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Hickson and Welsh Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 444900, 427800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Area of Land East of exsisting RSPB Visitor CentreCommercialInert
- Wheldale LaneCommercial
- Wheldale Fryston Colliery Reclamation / River BanInert
- East End Of WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Recreation GroundInert
- Healdfield Brickwork QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.