Girton Quarry
Industrial
Girton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial waste from 1991, covering about 17.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD22101, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22101 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Girton Quarry |
| Address | Girton Quarry, Newark, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence holder | National Power Plc |
| Licence issued | 9 August 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 17.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 482400, 368300 |
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
- Girton QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Girton Quarry 3/4Waste types not recorded
- Girton Quarry, NewarkWaste types not recorded
- Girton Ash Disposal Site/Girton No 1 Ash LagoonLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Low Marnham Reclamation SchemeIndustrial
- North Scarle Ash LagoonsLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.