Land adjacent to Thorn Head Farm
IndustrialInert
Land adjacent to Thorn Head Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Buxton, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste in 1993, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD22721, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22721 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to Thorn Head Farm |
| Address | Land Adjacent to Thorn Head Farm, Tom Thorn, Fairfield, Buxton, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Goodwin and Forbes Contractors Limited |
| Licence holder | Goodwin and Forbes Contractors Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 January 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1993 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1993 |
| Area | 0.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 407100, 376000 |
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
- Derbyshire County Council, Victory Quarry Waste Disposal siteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wibbersley FarmInert
- Hogshaw Refuse TipIndustrialCommercial
- Perseverance Lime Waste TipWaste types not recorded
- Doveholes TipSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Buxton Lime And CementWaste 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.