Wakefield Road Recreation Ground
Household
Wakefield Road Recreation Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dewsbury. It received household waste between 1945 and 1957, covering about 5.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD35044, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35044 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wakefield Road Recreation Ground |
| Address | Wakefield Road, Earlsheaton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1957 |
| Area | 5.13 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 426200, 421700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Former dams at Syke Ing MillsCommercialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingInert
- Shaw Cross Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- RHM Ingredients Limited, Owl LaneInert
- Land adjacent to Little Royd MillCommercialInert
- Runtlings TipIndustrialCommercial
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.