Railway Cutting
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Conisbrough. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 0.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD04474, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04474 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Melton Road to New Lane, Spotborough |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R K Raper |
| Licence issued | 3 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1980 |
| First waste input | 3 April 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1980 |
| Area | 0.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 453500, 402100 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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 Cutting between New Lane and Cadeby RoadCommercialInert
- Railway cutting North of Melton RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- 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.