Bridge Mill
Inert
Bridge Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Glossop, Derbyshire. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1989, covering about 3.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD16557, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16557 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bridge Mill |
| Address | Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Audenshaw Diesel Engines Limited |
| Licence holder | Audenshaw Diesel Engines Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 August 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 October 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1989 |
| Area | 3.83 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 401800, 396800 |
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
- Old Mill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Old Mill SiteInert
- Woolley Bridge RoadInert
- Paradise QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Woolley Bridge RoadWaste types not recorded
- Longdendale Trial (Site 2)Inert
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.