Ridgeway Farm
IndustrialInert
Ridgeway Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Belper, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1972 and 1987, covering about 0.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD22874, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22874 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ridgeway Farm |
| Address | Ridgeway, Ambergate, Belper, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D J Ford |
| Licence issued | 15 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 October 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1987 |
| Area | 0.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 435700, 351700 |
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
- Ridgeway FarmIndustrialInert
- Ambergate Quarry - Ridgeway QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ridgeway LaneWaste types not recorded
- Crich LaneWaste types not recorded
- Ridgeway LaneIndustrialInert
- Clay WorkingsWaste types not recorded
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.