Dean Head Wood
Commercial
Dean Head Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stocksbridge. It received commercial waste between 1977 and 1995, covering about 5.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD04388, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04388 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dean Head Wood |
| Address | Greenmoor, Barnsley |
| Site operator | British Steel Corporation |
| Licence holder | British Steel Corporation |
| Licence issued | 24 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 May 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1995 |
| Area | 5.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427200, 400100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- California QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Well Hill RoadWaste types not recorded
- Dyson CoteWaste types not recorded
- Ford LaneWaste types not recorded
- Oxspring Recreation GroundInert
- Coronation RoadWaste 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.