Upperwood Hall
Inert
Upperwood Hall is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wombwell. It received inert waste between 1974 and 1990, covering about 0.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD04412, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04412 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upperwood Hall |
| Address | Doncaster Road, Darfield, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | South Yorkshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 4 October 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 4 October 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440100, 405100 |
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 to the rear of BrookfieldCommercialInert
- Land North of Valley RoadCommercialInert
- Station Road Industrial EstateInert
- North Ferriby TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- End Of Ings RoadWaste types not recorded
- Disused canal between Station Road and Littlefield 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.