Winking Hill Gypsum Disposal Site
Industrial
Winking Hill Gypsum Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It received industrial waste between 1994 and 2024, covering about 12.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD36137, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36137 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Winking Hill Gypsum Disposal Site |
| Address | Winking Hill,,Ratcliffe On Soar,Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | UNIPER UK LIMITED |
| Licence holder | UNIPER UK LIMITED |
| Licence issued | 24 May 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 February 2024 |
| First waste input | 24 May 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 12.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Derbys Notts and Leics |
| Grid reference | 451440, 329437 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Winking Hill Gypsum Disposal SiteIndustrial
- Winking HillIndustrial
- Fields Adjacent and Behind to Lockhouse at Cranfleet LockLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.