Historic landfill sites in Mexborough
The Environment Agency records 28 historic landfill sites in and around Mexborough. covering roughly 84 hectares in total. The largest is Kilnhurst Tip at 14.25 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Mexborough (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kilnhurst Tip | 14.25 ha | — | Inert |
| Mexborough PS | 9.93 ha | — | Industrial |
| Brickworks Quarry | 6.61 ha | 1981 | IndustrialInert |
| Hollings Lane | 6.05 ha | — | Industrial |
| Talbot Road | 5.25 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Bow Broom Queen Street | 5.08 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Croda Tip | 4.22 ha | — | Industrial |
| Kilnhurst Brick Rotherham Limited | 4.11 ha | — | Inert |
| Kilnhurst Colliery | 4.02 ha | — | Inert |
| Carr Lane | 3.25 ha | 1994 | CommercialInert |
| Wentworth Road Quarry | 3.02 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Lodge Farm | 2.71 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| BDH Limited | 2.23 ha | — | Industrial |
| Hooton Common Farm | 2.18 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Don Bait Company Limited | 1.89 ha | 1994 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Samuel Strapping Systems U K Limited | 1.87 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Wath Road | 1.11 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Cutting | 0.89 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Railway Cutting between Church Lane and Hollowgate | 0.89 ha | 1979 | CommercialInert |
| Kings Road | 0.69 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Council Tip | 0.6 ha | — | Commercial |
| Denaby Lane | 0.6 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Flanderwell Lane | 0.58 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Ravine at Rear of Milburn House | 0.55 ha | 1984 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Ravenfield Tip | 0.37 ha | — | Industrial |
| Station Road | 0.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Spring View | 0.32 ha | 1982 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Hollings Lane | 0.1 ha | 1972 | 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 Mexborough?
- 28 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Mexborough 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 Mexborough?
- 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.