Hemington Gravel Pit
Industrial
Hemington Gravel Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It received industrial waste between 1960 and 1994, covering about 128.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD28397, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28397 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hemington Gravel Pit |
| Address | Hemington Gravel Pit, Ryecroft Road, Hemington, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Amey Roadstone Company |
| Licence holder | Powergen Plc |
| Licence issued | 22 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 2001 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1994 |
| Area | 128.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 446300, 329700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hemington Gravel PitWaste types not recorded
- Cavendish BridgeIndustrial
- Off Main Street, Cavandish BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Hemington Pit, North West LeicestershireIndustrialInert
- Hemington QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Trent 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.