Aycliffe Old Quarry
Inert
Aycliffe Old Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 3.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD05438, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05438 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Aycliffe Old Quarry |
| Address | Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham |
| Site operator | Stonegrave Aggregates Limited |
| Licence holder | Stonegrave Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 October 1987 |
| First waste input | 9 June 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 3.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 428400, 522100 |
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
- Aycliffe Church Quarry No.1Waste types not recorded
- Aycliffe Quarry WestWaste types not recorded
- Aycliffe Quarry WestIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Highington Lane - Long Tens WayIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Great Lakes Chemical EuropeWaste types not recorded
- Hurworth RoadWaste 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.