West Riding Colliery
Commercial
West Riding Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Normanton. It received commercial waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD03788, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03788 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Riding Colliery |
| Address | Pope Street, Altofts, Choke Churl Bridge, Wakefield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | National Coal Board |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.66 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 439300, 424600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused Tip North of Express WayIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- NEGAS Whitwood Holder StationCommercialInert
- Lock LaneCommercialInert
- Castleford RUFC GroundsCommercialInert
- Land Adjacent to BSB Normanton LimitedCommercialInert
- Building Department TipWaste types not recorded
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.