Landfill Check

Lyndup Cottage

IndustrialInert

Lyndup Cottage is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darley Dale, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1976 and 1986, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD22787, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22787
Site nameLyndup Cottage
AddressChatsworth Road, Rowsley, Matlock, Derbyshire
Site operatorMr D J Marsden
Licence holderMr D J Marsden
Licence issued20 April 1978
Licence surrendered23 December 1986
First waste input31 December 1976
Last waste input23 December 1986
Area0.6 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference426100, 366600

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.

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.