Cromford Canal
IndustrialInert
Cromford Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ripley, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1988, covering about 1.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD22872, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22872 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cromford Canal |
| Address | Buckland Hollow, Ripley |
| Site operator | J C Balls and Sons |
| Licence holder | J C Balls and Sons |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 October 1988 |
| First waste input | 4 January 1982 |
| Last waste input | 13 October 1988 |
| Area | 1.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 437100, 351900 |
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
- Disused Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Clay WorkingsWaste types not recorded
- Meadow FarmIndustrialInert
- Ambergate Quarry - Ridgeway QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ridgeway LaneIndustrialInert
- Ridgeway LaneWaste types not recorded
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.