Kirkstead Abbey Farm
CommercialInert
Kirkstead Abbey Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1982, covering about 1.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD04569, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04569 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kirkstead Abbey Farm |
| Address | Upper Wortley Road, Rotherham |
| Site operator | J White and Company TDE Limited |
| Licence holder | J White and Company TDE Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 August 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1982 |
| First waste input | 13 August 1980 |
| Last waste input | 17 March 1982 |
| Area | 1.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 438200, 394900 |
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
- Land off Upper Wortley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Admirals CrestWaste types not recorded
- Hesley Lodge FarmCommercialInert
- Paddock next to Red House FarmCommercialInert
- Grange LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Droppingwell RoadInert
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.