Boldron Field 884
Inert
Boldron Field 884 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnard Castle, County Durham. It received inert waste in 1982, covering about 2.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD05946, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05946 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Boldron Field 884 |
| Address | Boldron, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
| Site operator | R D Kearton and Sons |
| Licence holder | R D Kearton and Sons |
| Licence issued | 6 December 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 7 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 2.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 403500, 513900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kilmondwood QuarryIndustrial
- Hulands QuarryInert
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.