Historic landfill sites in Sheffield
The Environment Agency records 71 historic landfill sites in and around Sheffield. covering roughly 264 hectares in total. The largest is Parkwood Landfill at 28.66 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Sheffield (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwood Landfill | 28.66 ha | 1994 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Douglas / Parkwood Landfill Site | 21.16 ha | 1991 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hyde Park Tip | 16.23 ha | 1972 | Commercial |
| Normanton Springs | 14.29 ha | 1991 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land North of Wensley Street | 12.07 ha | 1984 | CommercialInert |
| Lees Hall Woods Playing Fields between | 11.23 ha | 1991 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Petre Street | 11.16 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Skye Edge Playing Fields | 10.76 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Middlewood Quarry | 10.4 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Douglas Road Tip | 9.71 ha | — | Commercial |
| Long Lane Tip | 8.62 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Dysons Mooredge | 8.4 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Pipworth Road, Parkway | 7.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Shiregreen Lane Tip | 4.58 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Crookes Valley Open Space | 4.54 ha | 1982 | CommercialInert |
| Hodges Tip | 4.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rural Lane | 4.22 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Butterthwaite Lane | 4.16 ha | 1974 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Myers Grove Lane | 3.69 ha | — | Inert |
| Fox Hagg Farm | 3.6 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercialInert |
| No 1 Gas Holder Base | 3.53 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Myers Grove Lane | 3.4 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Aurora Works | 3.32 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Land off Linley Lane | 2.91 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Parkwood Road / Club Mill Road | 2.91 ha | 1985 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Holywell Road Reclamation Scheme | 2.89 ha | 1977 | CommercialInert |
| Cross House Quarry | 2.77 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Schofield's Tip | 2.57 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land off Wincobank Lane | 2.42 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Hesley Lodge Farm | 2.4 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Land between Petre Street and Boulding Industrial Supplies | 2.21 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Lumley Street | 2.06 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Robin Hood Quarry | 2.01 ha | 1981 | CommercialInert |
| Neepsend Power Station | 1.99 ha | 1987 | CommercialInert |
| Former refuse tip off Long Lane | 1.95 ha | — | Commercial |
| Oughtibridge Rolling Mills | 1.7 ha | 1990 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Foxhill Quarry | 1.68 ha | 1985 | Waste types not recorded |
| Greenland Road | 1.64 ha | — | Industrial |
| Hurlfield Quarry | 1.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Oldfield Terrace - Stannington Road | 1.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Holywell Road Reclamation Scheme | 1.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lapwater Farm | 1.26 ha | 1988 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Pickford Holland and Company Limited adjacent to Brickyard Premises | 1.23 ha | 1994 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Langsett Avenue - Middlewood Road | 1.18 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Ecclesfield Road Tip | 1.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Skew Hill Quarry | 0.82 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Grange Lane | 0.81 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| T.A.V.R Centre | 0.78 ha | 1991 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Dolphin Street | 0.72 ha | — | Commercial |
| Black Lane | 0.65 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Deep Lane | 0.63 ha | 1977 | CommercialInert |
| Lapwater Farm | 0.62 ha | 1994 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Aldene Road | 0.61 ha | 1979 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Millhouses Goods Yard | 0.6 ha | 1994 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Norfolk Hill | 0.57 ha | 1985 | Special |
| Loicher Lane | 0.5 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Wood Hill Works | 0.47 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land off Spout Lane | 0.47 ha | — | Inert |
| EMGAS | 0.45 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Land adjacent to Studfield Hill | 0.33 ha | 1994 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Beeley Wood | 0.31 ha | 1977 | Inert |
| Club Mill Road | 0.25 ha | 1987 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Greno Crescent | 0.2 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| East Midlands Gas Board Works | 0.2 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Yeb Tip | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodland Road North | 0.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whitley Lane | 0.15 ha | 1986 | CommercialInert |
| Ecclesfield Refuse Disposal Site | 0.14 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Norfolk Hill - Main Street | 0.09 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Parkwood Road | 0.06 ha | — | Inert |
| Neepsend Lane Gas Holder | 0.02 ha | 1994 | Inert |
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 Sheffield?
- 71 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Sheffield 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 Sheffield?
- 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.