Historic landfill sites in Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees
The Environment Agency records 11 historic landfill sites in and around Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees. covering roughly 29 hectares in total. The largest is Witham Hall Quarry at 7.29 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Yarm (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witham Hall Quarry | 7.29 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Coatham Stob Quarry | 7.02 ha | 1982 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Coatham Stob Quarry No. 3 Area | 4.73 ha | 1988 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Picton Landfill Site | 3.1 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Chrome Residue Tip | 2.18 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Trenholme Bar Railway Cutting | 1.86 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hartburn Nurseries | 1.52 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Land Adjacent to Coatham Brig | 0.51 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Land to the side of Coatham Brig | 0.34 ha | 1984 | CommercialInert |
| West Middleton Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Elementis Chromium | 0.2 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 Yarm?
- 11 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Yarm 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 Yarm?
- 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.