Thornes Moor
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Thornes Moor is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horbury. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1970 and 1973, covering about 9.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD35207, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35207 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Thornes Moor |
| Address | Wakefield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wakefield Metropolitan Distrcit Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 9.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 431300, 418400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Millfield Sand and Gravel QuarriesLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land within works complex at British Jeffrey DiamondCommercialInert
- Bicc Wire LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Calder GroveWaste types not recorded
- Land Adj To Broad Cut Top LockWaste types not recorded
- Westgate BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.