If you want to keep it really cheap, you could always do what we did, pick and shovel, strong plastic bags, dig it out by hand and repeated journeys to the tip. We even dug up parts of an old car which had been buried in the garden

Took ages, but we got there in the end and in its own sort of way was very satisfying.

If you can recover some of the bricks, you could make raised beds and grow your veggies that way.
if you recover from one side and build beds at the other side you could slowly work your way across your plot.
Raised pool as well. use rough bricks rubble etc and cover the sides with something more decorative.
Use the rubble to give higher spots and cover with sods.
Make a narrow dyke along your property edge but still lifting the height of the embankment.

Think of any hard core bases you might want to make ,before you clear any rubble away.
Pergola base.
Under a flagged sun area.
New spot for a shed
Path base with bricks on top .
brick edging everywhere

azz if you look at this thread this is what we did with our horrid space !!!

you can see the decking here too...

http://www.dogsey.com/showthread.php...hlight=decking

Could you do a rockery and pond or something?

Please will you swap houses with me - I'd LOVE a big place and would have it wild with trees and bushes and lots of nooks and crannies to hide in.

Thanks guys - well there's some good news and bad news

Bad news first - my guesstimate was way off it's actually 33ft (maybe 34 at a push) long and 40ft wide

Good news - that means it'll be cheaper to sort out

Here's some more pics showing how deep the bricks and rubble are:





Although it's mostly rubble, I know there's a steel tank in there and a wheel barrow, plus when we had bonfires all the neighbours used to come around for a drink... and some of us stupidly smashed the glass bottles - so there's probably glass dotted around :/

Hire a skip or two and have a garden clearance BBQ party. You could have a bonfire for all the burnable stuff to avoid paying for more skip space than is essential.

That is just how my son's garden was at the bottom, we organized a gardening party, me, two friends, my son and his partner Phil.
We spent the weekend clearing it by hand, we re-used the bricks for pathed pathways, the big stones (he has stoned walls all round, were used to repair parts of his stone wall and the rest of the unused stuff was skipped and thats where he now has his greenhouse and chickens & ducks. It takes hard work but garden parties can be fun, Phil made sandwiches and we had cold drinks, lots of laughs and we just didn't realise how quick we all got it done

Well, looks like you've got plenty of bricks for raised beds (they only need to be 2 or 3 brick-heights high)...

I reckon that's a mini-digger and skip job though!

Make it into a parking space and charge some poor smegger the earth to use it