Disused Railway Line
Inert
Disused Railway Line is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Glossop, Derbyshire. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 1.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD16616, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16616 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Line |
| Address | Lower Barn Road, Hadfield, Glossop, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Moorside Land and Development Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Moorside Land and Develop |
| Licence issued | 10 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 November 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1991 |
| Area | 1.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 401100, 395600 |
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
- Melandra Road Waste Disposal SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Woolley Bridge RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land Adjacent to Woolley Lane Gas WorksInert
- Carrhouse RoadWaste types not recorded
- Woolley Bridge RoadInert
- Paradise QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.