Bracken Hill Sand Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Bracken Hill Sand Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 3.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD05808, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05808 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bracken Hill Sand Quarry |
| Address | Seamer, Near Stokesley, North Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Hargreaves Industrial Services |
| Licence holder | Hargreaves Industrial Service |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1984 |
| First waste input | 16 September 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 3.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 450600, 510100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Landfill Site Manor FarmSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sand Quarry to the South East of Harker Hill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Howe Hill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brawith Claypit os 3100HouseholdInert
- Stokesley Road LandfillInert
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.