Wakefield Road
IndustrialCommercial
Wakefield Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1981 and 1988, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD04353, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04353 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wakefield Road |
| Address | Barnsley |
| Site operator | Booth Excavations Limited |
| Licence holder | Booth Excavations Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 July 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 May 1988 |
| First waste input | 28 July 1981 |
| Last waste input | 9 May 1988 |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 434900, 407900 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Smithy Green TipIndustrial
- Star Paper LimitedLiquid / sludgeInert
- Smithies TipWaste types not recorded
- The Fleets DamCommercialInert
- Dalestone WorksWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Wakefield 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.