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Historic landfill sites in Hetton-le-Hole

The Environment Agency records 37 historic landfill sites in and around Hetton-le-Hole. covering roughly 165 hectares in total. The largest is Crime Rigg Quarry Landfill at 30.63 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Hetton-le-Hole (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Crime Rigg Quarry Landfill30.63 ha—Waste types not recorded
Warden Law21.38 ha1987Inert
Warden Law Quarry21.38 ha1994Inert
Eppleton Quarry10.89 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hetton Downs South B9.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Shadforth Beck8.6 ha1990Inert
Hazard Lane A8.24 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hetton Downs North5.84 ha—IndustrialCommercial
The Bottoms No.25.7 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hetton Moor Farm5.06 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Area Y South of Hetton Miner4.99 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Bottoms4.98 ha1991Inert
Dorset Street3.35 ha—Waste types not recorded
Murton Lane2.65 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hazard Lane B2.63 ha—Waste types not recorded
Crime Rigg Quarry2.54 ha1983Inert
Hetton Lyons2.33 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sherburn Quarry Area C2.04 ha—Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Cookshold Lane1.9 ha1981IndustrialInert
Area V Salters Lane1.9 ha—Waste types not recorded
Strawberry Hill Farm1.46 ha1991Inert
Pesspool Lane1.22 ha1982Inert
Area X South of Hetton Centre0.89 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hetton Downs South A0.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sherburn Hill Area E0.81 ha—Household
Eppleton Bridge Railway Cutting0.68 ha1989Inert
Harehill Farm0.64 ha—Inert
Mill Farm0.48 ha1994Inert
Hill Top Farm0.41 ha1994Inert
Disused Quarry South West of High Moorsley0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Back Richard Street0.29 ha—Waste types not recorded
Coopers Close Thornley Area 10.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Area J East of Coopers Close0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
High Street Thornley0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Area K Murton Miners Welfare0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Colliery Farm High Haswell0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pittington Railway0.2 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 Hetton-le-Hole?
37 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hetton-le-Hole 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 Hetton-le-Hole?
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.

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