Cross House Quarry
CommercialInert
Cross House Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sheffield. It received commercial and inert waste from 1991, covering about 2.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD04542, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04542 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cross House Quarry |
| Address | Grenoside, Near Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Edwards Excavations |
| Licence issued | 24 December 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433000, 393700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Skew Hill QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Norfolk Hill - Main StreetInert
- Greno CrescentCommercialInert
- Norfolk HillSpecial
- Foxhill QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Lapwater FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
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.