Historic landfill sites in Matlock, Derbyshire
The Environment Agency records 17 historic landfill sites in and around Matlock, Derbyshire. covering roughly 65 hectares in total. The largest is Cawdor Quarry at 20.57 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Matlock (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cawdor Quarry | 20.57 ha | 1993 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Poorlots Quarry | 10.73 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Dimple Farm | 9.37 ha | 1975 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Lumsdale Quarry | 9.21 ha | 1983 | CommercialInert |
| Hodge Lane | 3.51 ha | 1995 | IndustrialInert |
| Hunger Hill | 3.48 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Land Adjacent To B5057, Peasunhurt Quarry | 1.57 ha | — | Inert |
| Peasunhurst Quarry | 1.52 ha | 1982 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Hunger Hill | 1.24 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Land off the Old Coach Road | 1.09 ha | 1987 | Industrial |
| Brickyard Farm Lums Hill | 1.02 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Butterley Reservoir/Butterley Tip | 0.51 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Chesterfield Road | 0.32 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Derbyshire County Council Waste Disposal Site, Amberville Quarry | 0.2 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Southen Section of Field 297 | 0.2 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Emgas Sub Depot | 0.11 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Former Gritstone Quarry | 0.04 ha | 1992 | 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 Matlock?
- 17 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Matlock 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 Matlock?
- 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.