Royd Works
IndustrialCommercialInert
Royd Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1988, covering about 3.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD03932, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03932 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Royd Works |
| Address | Royd Lane, Beechcliffe, Keighley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Herbert Roberts Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 November 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1979 |
| Last waste input | 2 September 1988 |
| Area | 3.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 406000, 442600 |
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
- Field off Royd WayCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to Royd Way Trailer ParkCommercialInert
- Holy Trinity SchoolInert
- Norwood House Nursing HomeCommercialInert
- Grange Middle SchoolCommercialInert
- The Former Parkwood Greyhound Racing StadiumCommercialInert
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.