Blackwell Tip
Inert
Blackwell Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. It received inert waste between 1959 and 1986, covering about 12.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD22148, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22148 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Blackwell Tip |
| Address | Off Berristowe Lane, Hilcote, Blackwell, South Normanton, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | British Railways |
| Licence holder | British Rail |
| Licence issued | 9 March 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1986 |
| Area | 12.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 446100, 357800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bowring TransportWaste types not recorded
- Crowtrees FarmInert
- Rear of Auto AlloysInert
- Fulwood/Disused Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rear of 50-56 Columbia StreetInert
- Sutton Landfill SiteLiquid / 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.