Stanwick Quarry
Inert
Stanwick Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Higham Ferrers, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste from 1989, covering about 40.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD02146, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02146 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stanwick Quarry |
| Address | Higham Road, Stanwick, Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | ARC Eastern Limited |
| Licence holder | ARC Eastern Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 February 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1989 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 40.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 496300, 270700 |
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
- Station RoadLiquid / sludge
- Mill ChromeIndustrial
- Stanwick Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
- Sewage Disposal WorksHouseholdInert
- Off Finedon RoadInert
- Rushden PitInert
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.