Landfill Check

Field Lane Quarry

Inert

Field Lane Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Elmsall. It received inert waste from 1980, covering about 3.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD03854, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03854
Site nameField Lane Quarry
AddressSouth Elmsall
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSouth Elmsall Quarries Limited
Licence issued2 September 1980
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1980
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area3.06 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference448200, 411400

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.

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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.