Eldon Hill Quarry
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Eldon Hill Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shildon, County Durham. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste from 1962, covering about 19.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD31864, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31864 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Eldon Hill Quarry |
| Address | Eldon, County Durham |
| Site operator | Eldon Estates |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 19.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 423900, 527100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Old Eldon QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sunnydale Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tarmac Bricks and TilesIndustrialInert
- Guerney Valley Area DWaste types not recorded
- Black Boy TipCommercial
- Shildon TunnelWaste types not recorded
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.