Land adjacent to Old Engine Sheds
CommercialInert
Land adjacent to Old Engine Sheds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wath upon Dearne. It received commercial and inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD04433, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04433 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to Old Engine Sheds |
| Address | Off Moor Road, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham |
| Site operator | Wath Recycling Limited |
| Licence holder | Wath Recycling Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 February 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 13 February 1991 |
| Last waste input | 24 February 1993 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 443400, 401600 |
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
- Wet Moor Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at the former Wath Marshalling YardsInert
- Highways DepotIndustrialInert
- Wath CollieryLiquid / sludge
- Former Manvers Main Colliery / Known as site 'E'SpecialInert
- Pageth RoadWaste types not recorded
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.