Swales Moor Road
SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Swales Moor Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received special (hazardous), industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1964 and 1998, covering about 4.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD04139, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04139 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Swales Moor Road |
| Address | Bradford Old Road, Swales Moor, Queensbury |
| Site operator | Mintex Limited |
| Licence holder | Mintex Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1985 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1964 |
| Last waste input | 29 May 1998 |
| Area | 4.27 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 408900, 428000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Muktubs (UK) LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Eastwoods Tip South Quarry No.1Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- EastwoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- EastwoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Swalesmoor Mink FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Eastwoods Tip NorthLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
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.