Railway Cutting adjacent former Sprotbrough Foundry Site
IndustrialCommercialInert
Railway Cutting adjacent former Sprotbrough Foundry Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bentley. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1988, covering about 1.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD04472, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04472 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting adjacent former Sprotbrough Foundry Site |
| Address | Melton Road, Sprotbrough |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Frank Haslam, Milan and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 July 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 December 1993 |
| First waste input | 25 July 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 1.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 455400, 403200 |
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
- Hexthorpe AllotmentsWaste types not recorded
- Old WorksInert
- GarageWaste types not recorded
- Sunn InnCommercial
- National Supply CentreSpecial
- Disused Railway SidingsSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.