Paddock next to Red House Farm
CommercialInert
Paddock next to Red House Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wombwell. It received commercial and inert waste in 1982, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD04547, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04547 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Paddock next to Red House Farm |
| Address | Scholes Lane, Scholes, Rotherham |
| Site operator | R B Allfree and Company Limited |
| Licence holder | R B Allfree and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 April 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 September 1982 |
| First waste input | 6 April 1982 |
| Last waste input | 13 September 1982 |
| Area | 0.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 438700, 396000 |
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
- Hague LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hague LaneLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- Land off Upper Wortley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Kirkstead Abbey FarmCommercialInert
- Admirals CrestWaste types not recorded
- Hesley Lodge FarmCommercialInert
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.