Swale Quarry
Inert
Swale Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bedale, North Yorkshire. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1983, covering about 7.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD05303, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05303 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Swale Quarry |
| Address | Bolton Grange, Scorton, Richmond, North Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Tilling Construction Services |
| Licence holder | Tilling Construction Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 7.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 425100, 498400 |
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
- Swale QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Site in Catterick VillageIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tancred Landfill SiteInert
- Pallett Hill QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lime Kiln FarmHouseholdInert
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.