Priors Hall Quarry
Inert
Priors Hall Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Corby, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 10.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD02025, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02025 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Priors Hall Quarry |
| Address | Off Gretton Road, Corby, Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | Corby Stone Quarries Limited |
| Licence holder | Corby Stone Quarries Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 December 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 1 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 10.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 492700, 290500 |
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
- Priors Hall QuarryInert
- Railway CuttingInert
- Refractory TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- North East Materials StockyardLiquid / sludgeInert
- Rear Of 117 Corby RoadInert
- Longhills GulletInert
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.