Historic landfill sites in Conisbrough
The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Conisbrough. covering roughly 76 hectares in total. The largest is Off Pasture Road / Part of OS field 5663 at 14.18 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Conisbrough (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Off Pasture Road / Part of OS field 5663 | 14.18 ha | 1980 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Staveley Street | 10.54 ha | 1984 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hellaby Landfill | 6.9 ha | 1979 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Disused Railway Line/Railway Cutting | 6.9 ha | 1981 | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Edlington Brickworks Quarry | 5.38 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| River Don And Conisbrough Station | 4.28 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ashfield Quarry / Ashfield Brickworks (Brickpits) / Conisborough Tip Site | 4.11 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 3.98 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Kearsley Lane | 3.66 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Part Field Nos. 5855 and 6968 North of Pastures Ro | 3.46 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Brickworks Site | 3.26 ha | 1984 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| NCB Land south of Pastures Road | 3.16 ha | 1971 | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Landfill Site / Disused Railway Cutting | 2.17 ha | 1994 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Burcroft Sewage Works | 1.11 ha | 1972 | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway cutting North of Melton Road | 1 ha | 1985 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.43 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting between New Lane and Cadeby Road | 0.4 ha | 1979 | CommercialInert |
| Melton Road | 0.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Cutting | 0.29 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sprotbrough Boat | 0.2 ha | — | Waste 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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Conisbrough?
- 20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Conisbrough 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 Conisbrough?
- 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.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.