Landfill Check

Crime Rigg Quarry

Inert

Crime Rigg Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1983, covering about 2.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD06813, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06813
Site nameCrime Rigg Quarry
AddressShadforth, County Durham
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSherburn Stone Company Limited
Licence issued20 October 1978
Licence surrendered25 March 1983
First waste input31 October 1978
Last waste input21 March 1983
Area2.54 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference433900, 541800

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.

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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.