Clough Green Works
Industrial
Clough Green Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penistone. It received industrial waste between 1978 and 1993, covering about 2.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD04310, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04310 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clough Green Works |
| Address | Cawthorne, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Naylor Bothers (Clayware Limited) |
| Licence holder | Naylor Brothers Clayware Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 4 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 15 February 1993 |
| Area | 2.52 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427000, 406400 |
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
- Cross LaneCommercialInert
- Quarry to rear of Silkstone ChapelCommercialInert
- Recreation Ground to rear of filling stationCommercialInert
- Cone LaneWaste 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.