Lundsfield Quarry
Industrial
Lundsfield Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Carnforth, Lancashire. It received industrial waste between 1983 and 2016, covering about 1.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD35994, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35994 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lundsfield Quarry |
| Address | Land East Of Thwaites Gate,Lancaster,Carnforth,Lancashire |
| Site operator | Stressline Ltd |
| Licence holder | Stressline Ltd |
| Licence issued | 17 January 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 April 2016 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cumbria and Lancashire |
| Grid reference | 349600, 469700 |
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
- LundsfieldInert
- Crag Bank QuarrySpecialInert
- Back Lane QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Cote Stones TipCommercial
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.