Landfill Check

Railway Cutting between Church Lane and Hollowgate

CommercialInert

Railway Cutting between Church Lane and Hollowgate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mexborough. It received commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 0.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD04448, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04448
Site nameRailway Cutting between Church Lane and Hollowgate
AddressHarlington, Barnburgh, Near Doncaster
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSheffield Tippers Limited
Licence issued10 November 1977
Licence surrendered1 December 1979
First waste input10 November 1977
Last waste input13 November 1979
Area0.89 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference448100, 402800

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

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.