The Old Quarry
IndustrialInert
The Old Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Belper, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1974 and 1994, covering about 1.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD22854, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22854 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Old Quarry |
| Address | Cromford Road, Crich, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Granwood Flooring Limited |
| Licence holder | Karenight Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 10 July 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 1.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 434800, 354600 |
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
- Folds YardIndustrial
- Derbyshire County Council waste Disposal Site, Old Quarry CrichIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Former Jingler MineIndustrialInert
- Culland QuarryIndustrialInert
- Derbyshire County Council, Waste Disposal SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Facility to the North of the Works, Johnson and Nephew Ambergate LimitedIndustrialInert
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.