Meadowbank Road
IndustrialCommercialInert
Meadowbank Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1989, covering about 1.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD04583, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04583 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Meadowbank Road |
| Address | Kimberworth, Rotherham |
| Site operator | Meadowbank Engineering Limited / J White and Company Limited |
| Licence holder | The Slag Reduction Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 March 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 August 1989 |
| First waste input | 3 March 1982 |
| Last waste input | 1 August 1989 |
| Area | 1.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 439800, 392100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Meadowbank RoadInert
- Meadowhall RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Rother Boiler CompanyIndustrialInert
- Yard Off Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Deepdale RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Holmes MillsIndustrialInert
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.