Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Stocksbridge

The Environment Agency records 49 historic landfill sites in and around Stocksbridge. covering roughly 112 hectares in total. The largest is More Hall Tip at 30.26 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
More Hall Tip30.26 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Townend Tip8.89 ha—Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Myers Lane Tip5.33 ha—Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Dean Head Wood5.18 ha1995Commercial
Aaron White Limited4.15 ha—IndustrialHouseholdInert
Ughill Opencast Clay Mine4.1 ha1981IndustrialInert
Land being part of Northorpe Farm Holding Sycamore Farm4.01 ha1987CommercialInert
Long Lane3.46 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land east of Underbank Lane3.01 ha1988CommercialInert
Church Street2.7 ha1980Inert
Wyming Brook Farm2.6 ha1985Inert
Adjacent to Common Lane2.46 ha1989CommercialInert
Hopwood House Farm2.39 ha—Inert
Recreation Ground to rear of filling station2.35 ha1989CommercialInert
GR Stein Refractories Limited2.23 ha1990SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Smithyfold Farm2.15 ha1990CommercialInert
Rodside Quarry2.11 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Bentholme Farm2 ha1987Inert
Land Adjacent to Ewden Water Treatment Works, off A616, Bolsterstone1.97 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wigan Farm1.82 ha—IndustrialInert
Ford Lane1.57 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wortley Road1.39 ha—Inert
Land Off Bent Hills Lane1.36 ha1992Inert
California Quarry1.36 ha1981Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
Loadfield Lane Quarry1.31 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Sheffield City Council1.3 ha—Inert
Former Quarry off Haggstones Road0.96 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cone Lane0.92 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hollinbusk Lane0.91 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Haywood Lane0.9 ha1986Waste types not recorded
Ellen Cliffe Quarry0.81 ha1987Inert
Carr Road - Wood Royd Road0.69 ha—IndustrialInert
Haighenfield Farm0.65 ha1984CommercialInert
Well Hill Road0.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Coronation Road0.48 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sycamore Farm0.45 ha1987Inert
Lionell Hill0.42 ha1980Waste types not recorded
Disused Railway Cutting off A6290.4 ha1990Inert
County Engineers Site0.35 ha—Industrial
Field No 52960.33 ha1986CommercialInert
Disused Quarry0.32 ha1995CommercialInert
Dyson Cote0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Oxspring Recreation Ground0.3 ha1988Inert
Rocher Quarry0.28 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Delph Hill Quarry0.27 ha1991CommercialInert
Haighenfield Quarry0.21 ha1993CommercialInert
Bower Hill0.16 ha1996Waste types not recorded
Forge Hill0.16 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land north of Sheffield Road0.04 ha1994Waste 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 Stocksbridge?
49 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stocksbridge 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 Stocksbridge?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.