Historic landfill sites in Crook, County Durham
The Environment Agency records 19 historic landfill sites in and around Crook, County Durham. covering roughly 45 hectares in total. The largest is Etherly Tip at 19.29 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Crook (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Etherly Tip | 19.29 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Land North East of Cockfield | 5.6 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Cragwood Waste Disposal Site | 5.51 ha | 1984 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Workings East of Cockfield | 3.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Refuse Tip North of Castle Steads | 2.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Area C North West of Esh Win | 2.08 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Crook North East | 1.56 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Fletcher Hill Open Cast Site | 1.21 ha | 1990 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Cragwood Quarry | 1.01 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial |
| Dowfold Quarry | 0.74 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Disused Pit No.1 at Cockfield Fell | 0.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Butterknowle Sewage Treatment | 0.56 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Sunniside East Area B | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Howden le Wear Colliery | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| High Lands | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| St Vincents | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Crook Brickworks | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Roddymoor Crook | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Disused Tip | 0.19 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 Crook?
- 19 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Crook 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 Crook?
- 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.