Historic landfill sites in Rawmarsh
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Rawmarsh. covering roughly 115 hectares in total. The largest is Thrybergh Tip at 34.44 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Rawmarsh (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrybergh Tip | 34.44 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Warren Vale | 11.26 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rotherham Engineering Steels - Oxbow Pond | 6.94 ha | 1994 | CommercialInert |
| Eastwwod Site | 6.91 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Warren Vale Road | 6.38 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Warren Vale Colliery | 6.35 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| A. Dearden Warren Vale Landfill | 6.27 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Roundwood Works, Aldwarke Lane | 5.31 ha | 1992 | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Rotherham Engineering Steels, Old Railway Cutting / Old Pig Iron Caster Plant | 4.64 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Hollings Lane | 4.48 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Ickles Steelworks Site 7 | 3.54 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| North of Doncaster Road | 3.04 ha | 1993 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Land off Chesterton Road | 2.91 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Chesterhill Quarry | 2.25 ha | — | Industrial |
| Doncaster Road | 2.16 ha | 1960 | Inert |
| Area South East of Aldwarke Works | 1.96 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Roundwood Works | 1.93 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Wash Lane | 1.72 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rotherham Engineering Steels | 0.69 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Former Railway Cutting and NCB Pond | 0.56 ha | 1985 | CommercialInert |
| Hermits Hill | 0.49 ha | 1994 | CommercialInert |
| Magna Lane | 0.25 ha | 1976 | IndustrialInert |
| 3 Wentworth Road | 0.14 ha | 1982 | CommercialInert |
| Northfield Lane | 0.11 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 Rawmarsh?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Rawmarsh 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 Rawmarsh?
- 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.