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Historic landfill sites in Barnsley

The Environment Agency records 60 historic landfill sites in and around Barnsley. covering roughly 67 hectares in total. The largest is Land To East Of Whaley Road at 6.13 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Barnsley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Land To East Of Whaley Road6.13 ha—CommercialInert
Whaley Road4.95 ha1992CommercialInert
Tipping of Builders Waste opposite Whaley Road4.39 ha1984CommercialInert
Redbrook Road3.97 ha1975HouseholdCommercial
Silkstone Golf Club3.69 ha1990CommercialInert
Rotherham Road3.45 ha1986CommercialInert
South Yorkshire Industrial Estate2.98 ha1990CommercialInert
Dayhouse Lane And Wilthorpe Road2.54 ha—Waste types not recorded
Allotment Gardens2.03 ha—Waste types not recorded
Between Darton Lane and Dearne Hall Road2.01 ha1994CommercialInert
Dalestone Works1.86 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smithies Tip1.71 ha—Waste types not recorded
Blacker Hill Quarry1.54 ha1984IndustrialCommercialInert
On waste land to the rear of Subseal Works1.44 ha1994IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land West of Summer Lane Dairy1.21 ha1988IndustrialCommercialInert
Gilroyd Lane1.18 ha1988CommercialInert
Fall Head Lane1.17 ha—Household
Croft Farm1.15 ha1993CommercialInert
Wakefield Road1.08 ha1988IndustrialCommercial
Land off Old Mill Lane1.06 ha1989CommercialInert
Smithy Green Tip0.96 ha—Industrial
Engineers O.C.C.S0.96 ha1990CommercialInert
S.R. Gents0.96 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land off Whaley Road0.9 ha1994Inert
The Fleets Dam0.86 ha1994CommercialInert
Land adjacent to Wakefield Road0.82 ha1997Waste types not recorded
Railway Cutting Off Claycliffe Road0.8 ha—Inert
Disused Canal0.78 ha—Inert
Star Paper Mill0.76 ha1990Inert
Star Paper Limited0.74 ha1982Liquid / sludgeInert
Gawber Refuse Tip0.65 ha—Commercial
Land to the rear of Chapel Street-Beever Street0.54 ha1984SpecialIndustrialInert
Land to the rear of Nos. 16 to 26 Byron Drive0.53 ha1987CommercialInert
Wilthorpe Road0.52 ha1988Inert
Quarry at Higher Spring Head Farm0.51 ha—CommercialInert
Disused Quarry0.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
West Road0.45 ha1987CommercialInert
Dodworth Miners Welfare0.45 ha—CommercialInert
Quarry0.43 ha1985CommercialInert
Metro Trading Centre0.37 ha1989CommercialInert
Shaw Carpets Limited0.36 ha1993IndustrialCommercialInert
Football Pitch to rear of Mines Public House0.34 ha1994Commercial
Jermyn Croft0.32 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Stainborough Cricket Club0.29 ha1992CommercialInert
Former Wood Brothers Tip0.27 ha—SpecialCommercial
Emgas Depot0.2 ha1984Inert
Silkstone0.2 ha—Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Recreation Ground0.19 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cannon Way0.18 ha—Inert
Redbrook Business Park0.17 ha—Waste types not recorded
Barnsley Football Ground0.14 ha1995Waste types not recorded
Spring Street0.13 ha1993Waste types not recorded
Land Adjacent to the former Strafford Colliery, Gilroyd Lane0.13 ha1990HouseholdInert
Redbrook Business Park0.13 ha—CommercialInert
Mount Osborne Industrial Park0.1 ha—Inert
Canal to the rear of Twibell Street0.09 ha1988Inert
Land North of Dodworth Road0.09 ha1992Waste types not recorded
Redbrook Business Park0.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
South Street Allotments0.05 ha1993Waste types not recorded
The Old Vicarage0.03 ha—Commercial

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Barnsley?
60 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Barnsley town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Barnsley?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.