Land adjacent to Priory Corn Mill
CommercialInert
Land adjacent to Priory Corn Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Worsbrough. It received commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1992, covering about 0.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD04897, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04897 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to Priory Corn Mill |
| Address | Grange Lane, Cundy Cross, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 15 May 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 May 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1985 |
| Last waste input | 15 May 1992 |
| Area | 0.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437100, 406300 |
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
- Railway EmbankmentInert
- Beatson Clark and Company LimitedSpecialIndustrialInert
- School StreetCommercialInert
- Disused Canal - Doncaster RoadWaste types not recorded
- Littleworth Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Monument FieldIndustrial
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.