Melbourne Farm
IndustrialInert
Melbourne Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bakewell, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1987, covering about 0.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD30309, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30309 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Melbourne Farm |
| Address | Monyash Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Mr C A Yates |
| Licence holder | Mr C A Yates |
| Licence issued | 30 April 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 April 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1987 |
| Area | 0.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 419100, 366500 |
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
- Haddon GroveIndustrialInert
- KirkdaleIndustrialInert
- Whitehouse FarmIndustrialInert
- Magpie MineIndustrialInert
- Conksbury LaneIndustrialInert
- Deep DaleInert
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.