Holmes Mills
IndustrialInert
Holmes Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1981, covering about 0.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD04638, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04638 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holmes Mills |
| Address | Meadowbank Road, Rotherham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J J Habershon Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 June 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440800, 392300 |
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
- Yard Off Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Rother Boiler CompanyIndustrialInert
- Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Deepdale RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage WorksCommercialInert
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.