Land Adjacent to the Chesterfield Canal
Industrial
Land Adjacent to the Chesterfield Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Retford, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial waste between 1994 and 2022, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD36123, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36123 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to the Chesterfield Canal |
| Address | Babworth Road,Nr Retford,Nottinghamshire, |
| Site operator | Canal & River Trust |
| Licence holder | Canal & River Trust |
| Licence issued | 29 April 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 November 2022 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Derbys Notts and Leics |
| Grid reference | 469254, 381478 |
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
- Northumbria DriveWaste types not recorded
- Retford Gas Holder StationInert
- Bridon Wire RopesWaste types not recorded
- BellmoorLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Bellmoor QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.