Aston Hill Borrow Pit
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Aston Hill Borrow Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Derby, City of Derby. It received industrial and household waste between 1996 and 2001, covering about 2.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD30287, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30287 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Aston Hill Borrow Pit |
| Address | Aston-On-Trent, Derby |
| Site operator | John Jones (Excavation) Limited |
| Licence holder | John Jones (Excavations) Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 February 1996 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 2001 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1996 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 441100, 330300 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Aston BrickworksWaste types not recorded
- The Wood, Longcroft FarmIndustrial
- The DingleIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Old Playing Field, Rear of NOTSA EngineeringIndustrial
- Elvaston QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Elvaston QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.