Landfill Check

Ardley Quarry Inert Area

Inert

Ardley Quarry Inert Area is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bicester, Oxfordshire. It received inert waste from 2002, covering about 10.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD13217, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD13217
Site nameArdley Quarry Inert Area
AddressArdley, Bicester, Oxfordshire
Site operatorViridor Waste Management Limited
Licence holderViridor Waste Management Limited
Licence issued14 June 2002
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area10.95 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWest TH
Grid reference454300, 225300

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.