Landfill Check

Old Recreation Ground

Inert

Old Recreation Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castleford. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 0.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD03722, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03722
Site nameOld Recreation Ground
AddressSmith Street, Castleford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr E R Wensley, t/a Wensley Transport
Licence issued12 June 1992
Licence surrendered1 April 1993
First waste input23 June 1992
Last waste input1 April 1993
Area0.93 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference443600, 426200

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

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.