Hoober Quarry
CommercialInert
Hoober Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wombwell. It received commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1992, covering about 0.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD04594, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04594 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hoober Quarry |
| Address | Lea Brook Lane, Wentworth, Rotherham |
| Site operator | J White and Company (TDE) Limited |
| Licence holder | J White and Company (TDE) Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 April 1992 |
| First waste input | 13 June 1988 |
| Last waste input | 13 April 1992 |
| Area | 0.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440900, 398600 |
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
- Lea Brook QuarryCommercial
- Brockley BankInert
- Glass House GreenCommercialInert
- Former Railway Cutting and NCB PondCommercialInert
- Packman RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old West Melton BrickworksCommercialInert
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.