Potlocks Farm
IndustrialInert
Potlocks Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1950 and 1981, covering about 5.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD23790, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23790 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Potlocks Farm |
| Address | Potlocks Farm, Findern, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | J H Fryer Limited |
| Licence holder | J H Fryer Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 February 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1981 |
| Area | 5.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 430600, 329300 |
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
- Land to the West of Repton RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Land Off A38IndustrialInert
- Stenson Fields FarmIndustrialInert
- Willington Power Station/Land to West of Repton RoadLiquid / sludge
- Land to the West of Repton RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.