Railway Cutting between New Lane and Cadeby Road
CommercialInert
Railway Cutting between New Lane and Cadeby Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Conisbrough. It received commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1979, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD04475, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04475 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting between New Lane and Cadeby Road |
| Address | Sprotbrough, Doncaster |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Arthur Merrien |
| Licence issued | 3 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1979 |
| First waste input | 3 October 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 453400, 401900 |
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
- Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Railway cutting North of Melton RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Sprotbrough BoatWaste types not recorded
- Melton RoadWaste types not recorded
- Railway CuttingCommercialInert
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.