Historic landfill sites in Buxton, Derbyshire
The Environment Agency records 15 historic landfill sites in and around Buxton, Derbyshire. covering roughly 97 hectares in total. The largest is Calton Hill at 46.75 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Buxton (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calton Hill | 46.75 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Taddington Waste Disposal Site | 14.19 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tunstead Quarry Tip | 13.69 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Burlow Works | 8.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Brierlow Quarry | 6.78 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Five Walls Farm | 2.41 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Cold Spring Farm | 1.5 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Warslow Landfill | 1.22 ha | 1969 | Commercial |
| Blakebrook Refuse Tip | 0.56 ha | 1975 | HouseholdInert |
| Townend Tip | 0.43 ha | 1966 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bareleg Hill | 0.37 ha | 1966 | Household |
| Land adjacent to Thorn Head Farm | 0.33 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| New House Farm | 0.31 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Hogshaw Refuse Tip | 0.2 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Near Drumbus Farm | 0.09 ha | 1960 | Waste types not recorded |
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 Buxton?
- 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Buxton 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 Buxton?
- 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.