Landfill Check

Disused Railway Cutting off Callywhite Lane

IndustrialInert

Disused Railway Cutting off Callywhite Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dronfield, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1987, covering about 0.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD04815, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04815
Site nameDisused Railway Cutting off Callywhite Lane
AddressCallywhite Lane, Dronfield
Site operatorMr W F Marshall
Licence holderMr W F Marshall
Licence issued28 January 1980
Licence surrendered6 December 1991
First waste input31 December 1986
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area0.64 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference436800, 378100

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.

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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.