Landfill Check

Disused Canal

Inert

Disused Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received inert waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD04357, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04357
Site nameDisused Canal
AddressOld Mill Lane, Barnsley
Site operatorBarnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence holderBarnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.78 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference434800, 407100

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.