Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works
CommercialInert
Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received commercial and inert waste on dates not recorded, covering about 2.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD04640, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04640 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works |
| Address | Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve, Sheffield |
| Site operator | Director of Engineering, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 441100, 391800 |
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
- Templeborough Steel WorksInert
- Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Ickles SteelworksInert
- Former Railway SidingsWaste types not recorded
- Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Holmes MillsIndustrialInert
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.