Old Brickyard
Inert
Old Brickyard is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Towcester, West Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1979, covering about 2.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD02301, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02301 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Brickyard |
| Address | Gayton Road, Rothersthorpe, Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | Wilson (Connolly) Service |
| Licence holder | Wilson (Connolly) Services |
| Licence issued | 7 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1979 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1979 |
| Area | 2.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 470400, 256000 |
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
- Gayton Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Part OS 96HouseholdInert
- Milton Sand PitLiquid / sludgeInert
- RothersthorpeInert
- Tiffield Road JunctionsInert
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.