Earls Barton Quarry
Inert
Earls Barton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1986, covering about 28.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD02252, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02252 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Earls Barton Quarry |
| Address | Station Road, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | Mixconcrete Holdings Limited |
| Licence holder | Mixconcrete Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 October 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1986 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1979 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1986 |
| Area | 28.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 486400, 261700 |
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
- Earls Barton QuarryInert
- Aggate WayInert
- Old Gravel PitInert
- Old Gravel PitInert
- Wollaston Mill and Doddington CrossingInert
- Hardwater CrossingInert
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.