Wath Colliery
Liquid / sludge
Wath Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wath upon Dearne. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1977 and 1983, covering about 61.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD04440, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04440 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wath Colliery |
| Address | Manvers Central Coal Preparation Plant |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | National Coal Board South Yorkshire Area |
| Licence issued | 20 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 October 1983 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 61.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 443500, 402800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land adjacent to Old Engine ShedsCommercialInert
- Land at the former Wath Marshalling YardsInert
- Wet Moor Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Station RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Highways DepotIndustrialInert
- Wath Manvers Former Coal Preparation SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.