Avesta Tinsley Park Works
Industrial
Avesta Tinsley Park Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received industrial waste between 1989 and 1994, covering about 78.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD04884, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04884 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Avesta Tinsley Park Works |
| Address | Shepcote Lane |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | B R Coal Opencast Executive |
| Licence issued | 4 September 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 4 September 1989 |
| Last waste input | 29 April 1994 |
| Area | 78.86 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440200, 388800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- British Steel CorporationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Land off Infield LaneCommercialInert
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksWaste types not recorded
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksCommercialInert
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksWaste types not recorded
- Greenland RoadIndustrial
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.