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Historic landfill sites in Darlington, Darlington

The Environment Agency records 40 historic landfill sites in and around Darlington, Darlington. covering roughly 319 hectares in total. The largest is Hall Farm at 184.37 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Hall Farm184.37 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Springfield Works21.07 ha1981Inert
Chemical and Insulating Company Tip19.99 ha—SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Creebeck16.34 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Skipbridge Waste Disposal Site8.49 ha1977Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
South Park8 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dodsworth Street5.1 ha1985IndustrialInert
Morton Palms Farm5.05 ha1994Inert
North of Dodsworth Street4.88 ha1985Inert
Hundens Depot4.52 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dodsworth St, Land North Of4.43 ha1989IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Little Whessoe Farm3.71 ha1983Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
Former Allotments Site3.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whessoe Road2.78 ha—Inert
Yarm Road - Shearwater Avenue - Heron Drive2.77 ha—Waste types not recorded
Vulcan Street2.31 ha—Waste types not recorded
Alexander Street2.06 ha—Waste types not recorded
Blackett Road2.03 ha—SpecialCommercial
Albert Road Gasworks1.98 ha1981Inert
Sanderson Street1.87 ha—Waste types not recorded
Neasham Road No.11.85 ha—Waste types not recorded
British Gas Northern1.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
John Street Gasworks1.81 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Albert Road1.17 ha—Waste types not recorded
Site of the Former Forge Tip0.96 ha—Waste types not recorded
Leonard Street0.88 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land North Of A660.71 ha1994Inert
Albert Road Gasworks0.66 ha1994Inert
Cleveland Industrial Estate0.58 ha1986Inert
Morton Palms Farm0.52 ha1994Inert
Neasham Road0.47 ha—Waste types not recorded
Skermeside0.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
DCC CS Pendleton Road0.32 ha—Waste types not recorded
DCC CS Pendleton Road0.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sewage Treatment Works0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Area B East of Skerne Park0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Morton Palms Farm0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Area C East of Railway Line0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whessoe Road0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Skerneside0.12 ha1972Industrial

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 Darlington?
40 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Darlington 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 Darlington?
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.