Birkshaw Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Birkshaw Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haltwhistle, Northumberland. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1953 and 1954, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD06447, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06447 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birkshaw Quarry |
| Address | Park Lane, Huntercrook, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Bardon Mill Parish Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1953 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1954 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 376300, 565200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Huntercrook PlantationIndustrial
- RamshawfieldIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land To North Of Ramshawfield EstateWaste 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.