Humbles Gill
Inert
Humbles Gill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Prudhoe, Northumberland. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 0.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD06667, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06667 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Humbles Gill |
| Address | Eastwoods Farm, Prudhoe, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Quality Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 December 1993 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 411000, 563600 |
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
- Humbles Gill Waste Disposal SiteWaste types not recorded
- Wylam Wood FarmInert
- Wylam Wood Farm No.1Inert
- West Wylam ExtensionLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Crawcrook Quarry SouthIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Crawcrook Quarry No.2IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.