Historic landfill sites in Belper, Derbyshire
The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Belper, Derbyshire. covering roughly 67 hectares in total. The largest is Wyver Lane Tip at 8.11 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Belper (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyver Lane Tip | 8.11 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Wyver Lane | 7.97 ha | 1982 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Ambergate Quarry - Ridgeway Quarry | 6.6 ha | 1984 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Culland Quarry | 6.21 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Cinderhill Farm | 6.05 ha | 1981 | IndustrialInert |
| Derbyshire County Council waste Disposal Site, Old Quarry Crich | 5.65 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Coxbench Quarries | 4.69 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Facility to the North of the Works, Johnson and Nephew Ambergate Limited | 3.08 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Clay Workings | 2.76 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ridgeway Farm | 2.38 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Chevin Quarry | 1.58 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Old Quarry | 1.55 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Castle Farm | 1.5 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Castle Wood | 1.42 ha | 1989 | IndustrialCommercial |
| Allpak International Limited | 1.31 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Old Road | 1.12 ha | 1981 | Industrial |
| Ridgeway Farm | 0.93 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Crich Lane | 0.86 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Former Jingler Mine | 0.71 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Disused Railway Cutting | 0.65 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Castle Saw Mills | 0.37 ha | 1993 | Industrial |
| Folds Yard | 0.32 ha | 1986 | Industrial |
| Brookside Farm | 0.27 ha | 1983 | Industrial |
| Ridgeway Lane | 0.2 ha | 1972 | Waste types not recorded |
| Milford Road | 0.19 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Ridgeway Lane | 0.13 ha | 1982 | IndustrialInert |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Belper?
- 26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Belper town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Belper?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.