Historic landfill sites in Glossop, Derbyshire
The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Glossop, Derbyshire. covering roughly 60 hectares in total. The largest is Woolley Bridge Road at 11.81 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Glossop (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley Bridge Road | 11.81 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Gamesley Waste Disposal Site | 6.46 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Melandra Road Waste Disposal Site | 5.66 ha | 1981 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Longdendale Trail | 4.73 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Dinting Lodge Industrial Estate | 4.16 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Bridge Mill | 3.83 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Longdendale Trial (Site 2) | 3.47 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Simmondley Lane | 2.84 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Paradise Quarry | 2.55 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Off Silk Street | 2.14 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Mill Site | 2.06 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Whitfield | 1.54 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Disused Railway Line | 1.17 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Pear Tree Farm Landfill Site | 1.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Turnlee Road | 0.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woolley Bridge Road | 0.89 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land Adjacent to Woolley Lane Gas Works | 0.85 ha | 1996 | Inert |
| Heybarn Farm | 0.52 ha | 1979 | SpecialIndustrial |
| Hargate Hill Lane | 0.52 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Bettenhill Farm | 0.39 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Old Mill Site | 0.38 ha | 1986 | Waste types not recorded |
| Disused Quarry | 0.34 ha | 1994 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Quarry | 0.31 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Land adjacent to Shaw Lane | 0.29 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Off Platt Street | 0.28 ha | — | Household |
| Carrhouse Road | 0.25 ha | — | 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 Glossop?
- 26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Glossop 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 Glossop?
- 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.