Landfill Check

Calow Farm

IndustrialInert

Calow Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bolsover, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1994, covering about 2.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD04835, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04835
Site nameCalow Farm
AddressStanfree
Site operatorP J Plant (Eastwood) Limited
Licence holderMr J A Richardson
Licence issued11 August 1982
Licence surrendered19 April 1995
First waste input31 December 1982
Last waste input31 March 1994
Area2.39 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference447700, 374200

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.