Wheldale Lane
Commercial
Wheldale Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pontefract. It received commercial waste from 1960, covering about 6.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD03890, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03890 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wheldale Lane |
| Address | Fryston, Castleford, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Castleford Corporation |
| Licence holder | West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1960 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 6.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 445700, 426800 |
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
- Area of Land East of exsisting RSPB Visitor CentreCommercialInert
- Newton TipIndustrialInert
- Wheldale Fryston Colliery Reclamation / River BanInert
- Brotherton Ings Ash Disposal SiteWaste types not recorded
- Healdfield Brickwork QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Watergarth QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.