John Knowles and Company Landfill Site
IndustrialInert
John Knowles and Company Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1973 and 1994, covering about 0.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD23806, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23806 |
|---|---|
| Site name | John Knowles and Company Landfill Site |
| Address | Woodville, Swadlincote, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | J Knowles and Company (Wooden Box) Limited |
| Licence holder | John Knowles and Company (Wooden Box) Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1973 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 0.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 431000, 318100 |
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
- Woodville Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Sun Street Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Derbyshire Incineration LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Hillside Quarry Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rawdon Villa Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercial
- Haywoods SiteCommercial
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.