How many former landfill sites are there in Ashington?

15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Ashington town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.

How do I check a specific address in Ashington?

Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Historic landfill sites in Ashington, Northumberland

Name: EA Historic Landfill Sites
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence

The Environment Agency records 15 historic landfill sites in and around Ashington, Northumberland. covering roughly 43 hectares in total. The largest is Bothal Barns Waste Disposal Site at 14.66 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Ashington (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

Site	Area	Last input	Waste types
Bothal Barns Waste Disposal Site	14.66 ha	—	Industrial
Ashington Refuse Disposal Site	7.16 ha	1974	Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Stakeford No.1	7.06 ha	1974	IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Peoples Park	5.67 ha	1952	IndustrialInert
Ashington Urban District Council Refuse Disposal Plant	2.95 ha	—	Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
Stakeford	2.23 ha	1978	HouseholdCommercial
Ellington Mill Farm	0.99 ha	1987	Inert
Warkworth Lane	0.73 ha	1994	Inert
Rear Rose Cottage	0.2 ha	1962	HouseholdCommercial
Springwell Plantation	0.2 ha	1965	Waste types not recorded
North Seaton Quarry	0.2 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Ulgham Grange	0.2 ha	1957	Waste types not recorded
Piggy Moor Lonpen	0.2 ha	1925	Waste types not recorded
Bothal Barns Farm	0.18 ha	1993	Inert
Ellington Quarry	0.16 ha	—	Waste 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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Ashington?: 15 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Ashington town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Ashington?: Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.