Old West Melton Brickworks
CommercialInert
Old West Melton Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wath upon Dearne. It received commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1994, covering about 3.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD04430, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04430 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old West Melton Brickworks |
| Address | Brick Quarry, Firth Road - Packman Road, West Melton, Brampton, Rotherham |
| Site operator | Environment Improvement Officer, South Yorkshire County Council Environment Department |
| Licence holder | Goldthorpe Metals Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 November 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 441800, 400800 |
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
- Pageth RoadWaste types not recorded
- Packman RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land Off Wath RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Land to East of A633 Road adjacent to Knoll BeckCommercialInert
- V H E Construction Plc - Former Cortonwood CollieryIndustrialInert
- Wath RoadHouseholdCommercial
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.