Castle Wood
IndustrialCommercial
Castle Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Belper, Derbyshire. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1969 and 1989, covering about 1.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD22912, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22912 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Castle Wood |
| Address | Horsley, Near Derby, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | British Celanese Limited |
| Licence holder | Courtaulds Acetate Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 1.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 437800, 343200 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coxbench QuarriesLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Castle FarmWaste types not recorded
- Old RoadIndustrial
- Brookside FarmIndustrial
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.