Historic landfill sites in Gateshead
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Gateshead. covering roughly 207 hectares in total. The largest is Felling Riverside Reclamation Site at 40.22 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Gateshead (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felling Riverside Reclamation Site | 40.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ravensworth Anne Pit Heap | 26.99 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Beggars Wood | 20.99 ha | 1973 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Gateshead Garden Festival No.2 | 18.64 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Redheugh Gasworks | 18.6 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Old Stone Quarry | 9.63 ha | 1981 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Moss Heaps | 8.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whitehouse Lane | 8.63 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ravensworth Golf Course | 7.59 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Beacon Lough School | 6.84 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Gateshead Garden Festival No.1 | 5.94 ha | — | Inert |
| Long Bank | 4.85 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ropery Road | 4.24 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Kibblesworth Village | 3.71 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Noble and Lund | 3.39 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Balmoral Drive | 3.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sheriffs Rise | 3.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Crossfield Industrial Park Windy Nook Industrial Park | 2.55 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Bondene | 1.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Walker Road | 1.71 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Windy Nook Hill | 1.62 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| High Fell | 1.08 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Beacon Rise | 0.87 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Union Road | 0.84 ha | — | Household |
| Kibblesworth Post Office | 0.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tyne Textiles | 0.7 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Redheugh Gasholder | 0.18 ha | 1991 | Inert |
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 Gateshead?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Gateshead 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 Gateshead?
- 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.