Quarry Road
IndustrialInert
Quarry Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1958 and 1991, covering about 2.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD04744, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04744 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Quarry Road |
| Address | Handsworth, Sheffield |
| Site operator | W H Nuttall and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | W H Nuttall and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 April 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1958 |
| Last waste input | 28 January 1991 |
| Area | 2.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440700, 386800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- W H Nuttall & Sons LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Quarry Road TipIndustrial
- Waverley East Opencast Coal SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Land to the South of Sheffield ParkwayInert
- Pipworth Road, ParkwayWaste types not recorded
- Land off Infield LaneCommercialInert
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.