Cragmill Quarry
CommercialInert
Cragmill Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wooler, Northumberland. It received commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1991, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD06331, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06331 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cragmill Quarry |
| Address | Belford, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | RMC Roadstone Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1977 |
| Last waste input | 3 January 1991 |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 410900, 634400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- MiddletonIndustrialCommercialInert
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.