Wath Manvers Former Coal Preparation Site
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Wath Manvers Former Coal Preparation Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bolton upon Dearne. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1994 and 2005, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD33008, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD33008 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wath Manvers Former Coal Preparation Site |
| Address | Off Bolton Road, Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 October 2005 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 445400, 401700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land adjacent to Bolton RoadInert
- Manvers Coking Plant SiteInert
- Former Manvers Main Colliery / Known as site 'E'SpecialInert
- Station RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Former Chock Site adjacent to Doncaster RoadInert
- Barnburgh TipSpecial
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.