Redmires Farm Quarry
Industrial
Redmires Farm Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolsingham, County Durham. It received industrial waste between 1971 and 1992, covering about 2.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD05893, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05893 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Redmires Farm Quarry |
| Address | Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1971 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1992 |
| Area | 2.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 408600, 539500 |
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
- East Sandy CarrIndustrialInert
- Bounderhouse QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Armond Carr Waste Disposal SitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.