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Historic landfill sites in Worsbrough

The Environment Agency records 40 historic landfill sites in and around Worsbrough. covering roughly 91 hectares in total. The largest is Westwood Tip at 11.09 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Westwood Tip11.09 ha1972IndustrialInert
C E Medlam9.27 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dovecliffe Quarry8.68 ha1982Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Littleworth Lane Tip8.64 ha1972Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Stairfoot Landfill Site6.85 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Swaithe Tip5.71 ha—Commercial
Stairfoot Brickworks4.38 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Greaves Lane Tip3.75 ha1977Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Stairfoot North Quarry Phase 22.74 ha—SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tankersley Park Golf Club2.73 ha—CommercialInert
Railway Embankment2.47 ha1990Inert
Golf Course2.24 ha1987Inert
Highfield Farm1.94 ha1983Inert
Monument Field1.93 ha—Industrial
Shortwood1.56 ha1990IndustrialInert
Newton Chambers and Company Limited1.51 ha1987SpecialIndustrialInert
Land to rear of Ward Green1.5 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
British Rail Railway Cutting1.35 ha1989CommercialInert
Tankersley Park Golf Club1.3 ha1979CommercialInert
Tankersley Park Golf Club1.28 ha—Waste types not recorded
Warren Lane1.22 ha1960CommercialInert
Bromley Farm1.17 ha1987Inert
Charlton Ironworks Limited0.93 ha1992IndustrialInert
Thorncliffe Works0.8 ha—IndustrialHouseholdInert
Land adjacent to Priory Corn Mill0.78 ha1992CommercialInert
Tankersley Park Golf Club0.77 ha1984CommercialInert
Bromley Farm0.57 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hermit Hill Shaft0.52 ha—Waste types not recorded
Birdwell Common Quarry0.5 ha—Waste types not recorded
Beatson Clark and Company Limited0.42 ha1985SpecialIndustrialInert
South East Corner Cemetery Road0.4 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stairfoot Quarry0.32 ha—Commercial
Land adjacent to 65 Market Street0.3 ha1993CommercialInert
Cottam Road0.3 ha1986Inert
School Street0.26 ha1984CommercialInert
Disused Canal - Doncaster Road0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land adjacent to 5A Hall Wood Road0.19 ha—CommercialInert
High Green0.17 ha1979CommercialInert
Land at Lowfields0.16 ha1979Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
Stallite Batteries0.11 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 Worsbrough?
40 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Worsbrough 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 Worsbrough?
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.