Denwick North Quarry
Inert
Denwick North Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alnwick, Northumberland. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1991, covering about 0.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD06340, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06340 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Denwick North Quarry |
| Address | Alnwick Road, Denwick, Alnwick, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J G Green and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 420900, 614600 |
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
- Denwick QuarryIndustrial
- Denwick South QuarryInert
- Silvermoor FarmInert
- Harlaw Hill ExtensionWaste types not recorded
- Harlaw Hill 4IndustrialInert
- Harlaw Hill 3IndustrialInert
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.