Oxspring Recreation Ground
Inert
Oxspring Recreation Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stocksbridge. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1988, covering about 0.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD04390, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04390 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oxspring Recreation Ground |
| Address | Sheffield Road, Oxspring, Sheffield |
| Site operator | Oxspring Parish Council |
| Licence holder | Oxspring Parish Council |
| Licence issued | 5 August 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 May 1988 |
| First waste input | 5 August 1983 |
| Last waste input | 17 May 1988 |
| Area | 0.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427100, 401800 |
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
- Bower HillWaste types not recorded
- Land north of Sheffield RoadWaste types not recorded
- Dean Head WoodCommercial
- Dyson CoteWaste types not recorded
- California QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Penistone ChurchIndustrialInert
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.