Brierley Railway Cutting
Household
Brierley Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hemsworth. It received household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD35209, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35209 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brierley Railway Cutting |
| Address | Hemsworth |
| Site operator | Hemsworth District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 442200, 411800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at BellholmeInert
- Land off Southmoor RoadWaste types not recorded
- South Moor WhinHousehold
- Manface HWS Quarry, Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hague HallWaste types not recorded
- Manface Quarry, Landfill SiteWaste 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.