Landfill Check

Former Railway Cutting and NCB Pond

CommercialInert

Former Railway Cutting and NCB Pond is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rawmarsh. It received commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 0.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD04596, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04596
Site nameFormer Railway Cutting and NCB Pond
AddressUpper Haugh, Rawmarsh, Rotherham
Site operatorFitzwilliam Wentworth Estates
Licence holderFitzwilliam Wentworth Estates
Licence issued17 March 1983
Licence surrendered17 October 1985
First waste input17 March 1983
Last waste input17 October 1985
Area0.56 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference442000, 397500

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

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.