Waverley East Opencast Coal Site
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Waverley East Opencast Coal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rotherham. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1971 and 1993, covering about 51.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD04742, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04742 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Waverley East Opencast Coal Site |
| Address | Land Off Highfield Lane, Orgreave, Rotherham |
| Site operator | B S C (Rotherham Works) |
| Licence holder | National Coal Board Opencast Executive |
| Licence issued | 20 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 20 December 1971 |
| Last waste input | 26 March 1993 |
| Area | 51.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 441500, 387500 |
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.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- British Steel CorporationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Orgreave RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Land to the South of Sheffield ParkwayInert
- Orgreave RoadWaste types not recorded
- W H Nuttall & Sons LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Quarry RoadIndustrialInert
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.