Walton Colliery
CommercialInert
Walton Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wakefield. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 5.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD03763, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03763 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Walton Colliery |
| Address | Walton, Wakefield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mone Brothers Excavations Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1983 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 435600, 418100 |
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
- Walton CollieryCommercialInert
- Walton Colliery Reclamation SiteInert
- Land Near Wakefield Power StationCommercial
- Red BeckInert
- Briary CloseSpecialLiquid / sludgeHousehold
- Heath CommonCommercial
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.