Rother Boiler Company
IndustrialInert
Rother Boiler Company is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1927 and 1990, covering about 2.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD04637, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04637 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rother Boiler Company |
| Address | Meadow Bank Works, Rotherham |
| Site operator | Rother Boiler Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Rother Boiler Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 January 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1927 |
| Last waste input | 29 January 1990 |
| Area | 2.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440500, 392300 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Yard Off Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Holmes MillsIndustrialInert
- Deepdale RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Meadowbank RoadWaste types not recorded
- Former railway cutting south of former Blackburn Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Meadowbank RoadInert
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.