Railway Cutting
CommercialInert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Elmsall. It received commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1991, covering about 3.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD03775, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03775 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Wrangbrook Lane, North Elmsall |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G B Turnbull Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 3.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 449100, 412800 |
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 CuttingCommercialInert
- Wrangbrook Rail CuttingCommercialInert
- Quarry Sheepwalk LaneCommercial
- Field Lane QuarryInert
- Field Lane QuarryInert
- South Elmsall BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.