Railway Cutting
IndustrialCommercialInert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Batley. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1988, covering about 3.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD04161, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04161 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Moat Hill Farm, Howden Clough, Birstall, Batley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr Stanley Briggs |
| Licence issued | 20 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 November 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 3.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 423400, 426700 |
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
- Nab Lane Refuse Disposal TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Nab LaneIndustrial
- Rear Of 132 Wakefield RoadCommercialInert
- Land Adjacent to Rushforth Quarry and Owlett HallIndustrialCommercialInert
- Former Railway CuttingLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Thorne FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
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.