Landfill Check

Old Chesterfield Canal

IndustrialInert

Old Chesterfield Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Staveley, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 3.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD04829, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04829
Site nameOld Chesterfield Canal
AddressAdjoining Old Hall Farm, Station Road, Killamarsh
Site operatorMr H S Down
Licence holderMr H S Down
Licence issued19 March 1979
Licence surrendered23 December 1986
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1980
Area3.8 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference444700, 380300

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

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.