Woodthorpe Drive Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Woodthorpe Drive Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Arnold, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1981, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD22239, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22239 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Woodthorpe Drive Railway Cutting |
| Address | Railway Cutting, Woodthorpe Drive, Mapperley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | Nottingham City Council |
| Licence holder | Nottingham City Council |
| Licence issued | 2 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 458000, 343500 |
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
- Breckhill QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land between Coppice Recreation Ground and StonepitIndustrialInert
- Valley RoadIndustrialInert
- Carrington Railway CuttingInert
- Bluebell Hill QuarryWaste 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.