Wellholes Landfill Site
Inert
Wellholes Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Todmorden. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1996, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD04146, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04146 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wellholes Landfill Site |
| Address | Gorple Lower Reservoir, Widdop, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Yorkshire Water Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 June 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 July 1996 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 394700, 432200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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.