Denwick Quarry
Industrial
Denwick Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alnwick, Northumberland. It received industrial waste between 2002 and 2019, covering about 2.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD36082, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36082 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Denwick Quarry |
| Address | Denwick,Alnwick,Northumberland |
| Site operator | Northumberland County Council |
| Licence holder | Northumberland County Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 July 2019 |
| First waste input | 2 May 2002 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumberland Durham and Tees |
| Grid reference | 420950, 614520 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Denwick South QuarryInert
- Denwick North 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.