Landfill Check

Whitwell Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Whitwell Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shirebrook, Derbyshire. It received waste of unrecorded type from 2006, covering about 31.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD35982, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35982
Site nameWhitwell Quarry
AddressSouthfield Lane,Worksop,Whitwell,Nottinghamshire
Site operatorSteetley Dolomite Ltd
Licence holderSteetley Dolomite Ltd
Licence issued26 June 2006
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area31.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDerbys Notts and Leics
Grid reference453400, 373596

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.