Wombwell Foundry
Industrial
Wombwell Foundry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wombwell. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 2005, covering about 3.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD33060, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD33060 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wombwell Foundry |
| Address | Hough Lane, Wombwell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Wombwell Foundry |
| Licence holder | Wombwell Foundry Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 June 2005 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 439100, 402200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lundhill RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Former QuarryHousehold
- Quarry TipHousehold
- North Ferriby TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Disused Canal between Littlefield Lane and Station RoadInert
- 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.