Witton Park Quarry
Inert
Witton Park Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1994, covering about 35.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD05924, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05924 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Witton Park Quarry |
| Address | Witton Park Quarry,Witton Park, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Northern Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 April 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 35.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 418200, 530500 |
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
- Witton Park Quarry No.2IndustrialInert
- Escomb WestWaste types not recorded
- Etherly TipIndustrialInert
- Escomb North EastWaste types not recorded
- Etherley DeneInert
- Howden le Wear CollieryWaste 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.