Landfill Check

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 1981 and 1982, covering about 9.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD02026, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02026
Site namePriors Hall Quarry
AddressOff A43, Corby, Northamptonshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFrench Kier Construction
Licence issued8 June 1981
Licence surrendered8 June 1982
First waste input8 June 1981
Last waste input8 June 1982
Area9.81 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference492900, 290100

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.

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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.