Leen Valley Branch Line Landfill
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Leen Valley Branch Line Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shirebrook, Derbyshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste from 1981, covering about 1.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD35938, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35938 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leen Valley Branch Line Landfill |
| Address | Wood Lane, Mansfield, Shirebrook, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | R W Rotel Plant Hire & Contractors Ltd |
| Licence holder | R W Rotel Plant Hire & Contractors Ltd |
| Licence issued | 30 March 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Derbys Notts and Leics |
| Grid reference | 451688, 366197 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Leen Valley Branch Line LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Leen Valley Branch Line LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Leen Valley Branch Line LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Williams Hollins and Company Limited, Forge LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Dismantled Railway, Common LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- ShirebrookWaste 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.