Land at the former Wath Marshalling Yards
Inert
Land at the former Wath Marshalling Yards is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wath upon Dearne. It received inert waste on dates not recorded, covering about 69.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD04432, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04432 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at the former Wath Marshalling Yards |
| Address | Between Pontefract Road to the West and Moor Road to the East, Leeds |
| Site operator | Director of Engineering, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 69.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 442900, 401700 |
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
- Land adjacent to Old Engine ShedsCommercialInert
- Wet Moor Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Highways DepotIndustrialInert
- Wath CollieryLiquid / sludge
- Pageth RoadWaste types not recorded
- 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.