Disused Railway Cutting off A629
Inert
Disused Railway Cutting off A629 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stocksbridge. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1990, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD04389, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04389 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting off A629 |
| Address | Halifax Road, Thurgoland, Barnsley |
| Site operator | South Yorkshire County Council |
| Licence holder | South Yorkshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 26 November 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 429500, 400800 |
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
- Lionell HillWaste types not recorded
- County Engineers SiteIndustrial
- Well Hill RoadWaste types not recorded
- California QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Dean Head WoodCommercial
- Sycamore FarmInert
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.