Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Rotherham

The Environment Agency records 74 historic landfill sites in and around Rotherham. covering roughly 535 hectares in total. The largest is Avesta Tinsley Park Works at 78.86 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Avesta Tinsley Park Works78.86 ha1994Industrial
British Steel Corporation57.51 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Waverley East Opencast Coal Site51.64 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works32.24 ha—Waste types not recorded
Beighton Road Tip29.96 ha1993SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Woodhouse Mill Tip27.15 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Meadowhall Road24.03 ha—SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Car Hill21.25 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Avesta Tinsley Park Works16.43 ha—CommercialInert
Treeton Lane14.45 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Treeton Lane14.19 ha—IndustrialInert
Fullerton Tip13.51 ha—Inert
Brinsworth Switching Station11.76 ha—Industrial
Avesta Tinsley Park Works11.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
Canklow Road9.05 ha—Industrial
Former Railway Sidings8.33 ha—Waste types not recorded
British Steel Corporation8.1 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land off Infield Lane7.49 ha1994CommercialInert
Droppingwell Landfill Site6.71 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Eastwood Dredgings5.18 ha—Liquid / sludgeInert
Quarry Lane5.03 ha—IndustrialInert
Templeborough Steel Works4.36 ha—Inert
Canklow Tip4.14 ha—Industrial
Bole Hill3.82 ha—HouseholdCommercialInert
Quarry Road Tip3.37 ha—Industrial
Orgreave Road3.16 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Quarry Road2.84 ha1991IndustrialInert
Northfield Lane2.79 ha1994Waste types not recorded
W H Nuttall & Sons Limited2.76 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rother Boiler Company2.75 ha1990IndustrialInert
Orgreave Road2.7 ha—Waste types not recorded
Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works2.61 ha—CommercialInert
Mansfield Road2.5 ha1988IndustrialInert
Ickles Steelworks2.48 ha—Inert
Beighton Miners Welfare Club2.41 ha1994Inert
Ockley Bottom2.28 ha—Industrial
Brookhouse Lane2.22 ha1994Inert
Mill Lane1.84 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Land Off Ickles Way1.8 ha—Inert
Pithouse Open Cast Coal Site1.72 ha1994Inert
Kirkstead Abbey Farm1.71 ha1982CommercialInert
Land East of Rotherham Road / Formerly Beighton Coke Oven Works and Brookhouse Colliery1.7 ha1991SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Phoenix Sports and Social Club / Sports Ground1.66 ha1992CommercialInert
Droppingwell Road1.54 ha—Inert
Land Off Quarryside Lane1.54 ha—Household
Droppingwell Landfill1.3 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Meadowbank Road1.18 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
230 Sheffield Road1.06 ha1991Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Grange Farm1.04 ha1960Inert
Brookhouse Works0.97 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Rother Crescent0.95 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Meadowbank Road0.95 ha1994Inert
Land off Canklow Road0.93 ha—IndustrialInert
Clough Quarry0.92 ha—Inert
Deepdale Road0.82 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Holmes Mills0.82 ha—IndustrialInert
Yard Off Meadowbank Road0.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
Templeborough Steel Works0.78 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land to the South of Sheffield Parkway0.77 ha—Inert
Meadowbank Road0.75 ha—Waste types not recorded
Barbot Hall0.75 ha—Industrial
Land off Pleasley Road0.63 ha—Inert
Fullerton Road0.56 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Blackmoor Quarry0.49 ha1994Industrial
Templeborough Steel Works0.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mansfield Road0.48 ha—Inert
Off Whitehall Lane0.45 ha—Industrial
Land Off Quarryside Lane0.42 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Avesta Tinsley Park Works0.4 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wood Lane0.37 ha—Industrial
Admirals Crest0.28 ha—Waste types not recorded
Railway Cutting between Stone Lane and Coisley Road0.28 ha1991Inert
Land at rear of 300 -312 Canklow Road0.27 ha1972Waste types not recorded
Shrogswood, Sitwell Park Golf Club0.09 ha1989Inert

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 Rotherham?
74 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Rotherham 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 Rotherham?
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.