High Close Quarry
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
High Close Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aspatria, Cumberland. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1991, covering about 3.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD07783, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07783 |
|---|---|
| Site name | High Close Quarry |
| Address | Plumbland, Aspatria, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence issued | 1 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 February 1991 |
| Area | 3.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 314600, 538100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Moota HotelHouseholdInert
- Clints QuarryInert
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.