Quarry off Wheatley Hill Lane
IndustrialInert
Quarry off Wheatley Hill Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penistone. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1994, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD04799, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04799 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Quarry off Wheatley Hill Lane |
| Address | High Hoyland, Clayton West, Denby Dale, Huddersfield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr C Broove |
| Licence issued | 23 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 0.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425400, 409600 |
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
- Wheatley Hill FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land at Wheatley Hill FarmCommercialInert
- Wakefield RoadWaste types not recorded
- Field 3074/3981CommercialInert
- Stove End CottageCommercialInert
- Nether EndInert
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.