Welbeck Quarry
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Welbeck Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wakefield. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1986, covering about 23.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD03735, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03735 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Welbeck Quarry |
| Address | Welbeck Lane, Eastmoor, Wakefield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cawoods Aggregates (NE) Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 April 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 July 1987 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1982 |
| Last waste input | 19 March 1986 |
| Area | 23.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 435600, 421700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gravel PitsLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Welbeck QuarryLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Ferry LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Disused Workings - Wakefield Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Wakefield 'B'Waste types not recorded
- Windhill QuarryHouseholdCommercial
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.