Rudchester Quarry
Inert
Rudchester Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Prudhoe, Northumberland. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1988, covering about 1.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD06363, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06363 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rudchester Quarry |
| Address | Rudchester, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Squadron Leader James |
| Licence issued | 10 August 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 1.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 411300, 567300 |
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
- Heddon Mill Waste Disposal SitInert
- Heddon CommonHouseholdCommercialInert
- Heddon Common QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- West AcresWaste types not recorded
- Ryton Golf ClubWaste types not recorded
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.