Landfill Check

Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works

Waste types not recorded

Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1990, covering about 32.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD04641, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04641
Site nameFormer railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage Works
AddressBlackburn Meadows Nature Reserve, Sheffield
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderRotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issued4 July 1990
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area32.24 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference440800, 391900

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

Boundary map

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.