Landfill Check

Woodbine Quarry

Inert

Woodbine Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dalton-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1984, covering about 0.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD07742, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07742
Site nameWoodbine Quarry
AddressNewton-In-Furness, Cumbria
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ R W Bertram
Licence issued31 August 1979
Licence surrendered1 May 1994
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1984
Area0.25 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern NW
Grid reference323600, 472100

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.

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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.