Salterwood Quarry
IndustrialInert
Salterwood Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ripley, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1957 and 1986, covering about 2.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD22891, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22891 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Salterwood Quarry |
| Address | Off Street Lane, Denby |
| Site operator | Aglite (Midlands) Limited |
| Licence holder | Aglite (Midlands) Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1957 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1986 |
| Area | 2.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 438800, 347500 |
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
- Denby PotteryIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Land Adjacent to A61IndustrialInert
- Ryefield QuarryIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Slaters PipeworksIndustrialHousehold
- Cinderhill FarmIndustrialInert
- Derbyshire County Council Refuse TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.