Stocks House Quarries
Inert
Stocks House Quarries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1991, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD03978, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03978 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stocks House Quarries |
| Address | Thornton, Bradford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | E Greenwood Stocks |
| Licence issued | 6 June 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1991 |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 407400, 432600 |
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
- Denholme Clough QuarryCommercialInert
- Shay Bottom FarmInert
- Land off Thornton RoadCommercialInert
- Denholme Velvets LimitedInert
- Imperial Chinese RestaurantInert
- Denholme House FarmInert
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.