Landfill Check

Railway Cutting

IndustrialInert

Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1974 and 1985, covering about 2.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD22226, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22226
Site nameRailway Cutting
AddressNewdigate Lane/Spencer Lane, From Main Road to New Farm Lane, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderStamford Waste Disposal Limited
Licence issued1 December 1977
Licence surrendered31 December 1986
First waste input30 September 1974
Last waste input31 December 1985
Area2.78 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference451000, 345000

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.