Highways Depot
IndustrialInert
Highways Depot is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wath upon Dearne. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1990, covering about 0.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD04905, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04905 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Highways Depot |
| Address | Barnsley Road, Wath on Dearne |
| Site operator | County Engineer |
| Licence holder | Former South Yorkshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 2 August 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 3 September 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.44 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 443400, 401000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wet Moor Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to Old Engine ShedsCommercialInert
- Land at the former Wath Marshalling YardsInert
- Pageth RoadWaste types not recorded
- Old West Melton BrickworksCommercialInert
- Former Manvers Main Colliery / Known as site 'E'SpecialInert
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.