Kilnhurst Tip
Inert
Kilnhurst Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mexborough. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1994, covering about 14.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD04616, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04616 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kilnhurst Tip |
| Address | Kilnhurst |
| Site operator | BSC Rotherham Works |
| Licence holder | BSC Rotherham Works |
| Licence issued | 5 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 5 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 14.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 446600, 398300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- BDH LimitedIndustrial
- Croda TipIndustrial
- Samuel Strapping Systems U K LimitedIndustrialInert
- Talbot RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Lodge FarmInert
- Kilnhurst Brick Rotherham LimitedInert
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.