Rushforth Quarry / Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road
Inert
Rushforth Quarry / Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Batley. It received inert waste between 1968 and 1993, covering about 5.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD03673, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03673 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rushforth Quarry / Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road |
| Address | Wakefield Road, Drighlington |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Clugston Reclamation Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 May 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1968 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.53 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 423400, 428200 |
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
- Rushforth WorksIndustrialInert
- Rear Of 132 Wakefield RoadSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rushforth WorksCommercialInert
- Rushforth WorksCommercialInert
- Rear Of 132 Wakefield RoadCommercialInert
- Land Adjacent to Rushforth Quarry and Owlett HallIndustrialCommercialInert
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.