Landfill Check

Kilmondwood Quarry

Industrial

Kilmondwood Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnard Castle, County Durham. It received industrial waste between 1993 and 2015, covering about 1.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD35900, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35900
Site nameKilmondwood Quarry
AddressBowes, County Durham
Site operatorR M C Roadstone Limited
Licence holderR M C Roadstone Limited
Licence issued10 February 1993
Licence surrendered14 January 2015
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.52 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumberland Durham and Tees
Grid reference402400, 513500

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

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.