Upper Edge Quarries
CommercialInert
Upper Edge Quarries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 0.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD30227, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30227 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upper Edge Quarries |
| Address | Dewsbury Road, Elland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Briggs and Partner Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 March 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 22 November 1978 |
| Area | 0.83 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 412600, 420800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Pinfold Lane/Dewsbury RoadInert
- Five Acres QuarrySpecialIndustrialInert
- Blue Ball DelphLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Lower Edge QuarryIndustrialInert
- The RoughWaste types not recorded
- Calder WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
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.