Stairfoot Quarry
Commercial
Stairfoot Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Worsbrough. It received commercial waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD04373, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04373 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stairfoot Quarry |
| Address | Wombwell Lane, Stairfoot, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Yorkshire Brick Company |
| Licence issued | 4 October 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 August 1980 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437700, 405200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Stairfoot North Quarry Phase 2SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stairfoot BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Stairfoot Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stairfoot Quarry No.2SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stairfoot Brickworks QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Disused Canal - Doncaster RoadWaste types not recorded
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.