Railway Embankment
Inert
Railway Embankment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Worsbrough. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1990, covering about 2.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD04370, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04370 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Embankment |
| Address | Grange Lane, Barnsley |
| Site operator | M White and A Peace |
| Licence holder | White and Peace c/o Twibell Plant Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 February 1992 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1990 |
| Area | 2.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437400, 406200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land adjacent to Priory Corn MillCommercialInert
- Beatson Clark and Company LimitedSpecialIndustrialInert
- School StreetCommercialInert
- Disused Canal - Doncaster RoadWaste types not recorded
- Stairfoot Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stairfoot North Quarry Phase 2SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.