Bothal Barns Farm
Inert
Bothal Barns Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashington, Northumberland. It received inert waste in 1993, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD06362, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06362 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bothal Barns Farm |
| Address | Bothal, Morpeth, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Welbeck Estates Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 August 1993 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 424600, 586900 |
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
- Bothal Barns Waste Disposal SiteIndustrial
- Pegswood CollieryInert
- Ashington Refuse Disposal SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.