Bothal Barns Waste Disposal Site
Industrial
Bothal Barns Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashington, Northumberland. It received industrial waste between 1995 and 2016, covering about 14.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD36001, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36001 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bothal Barns Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Morpeth,Bothal,Northumberland |
| Site operator | Owen Pugh & Co Ltd |
| Licence holder | Owen Pugh & Co Ltd |
| Licence issued | 27 March 1995 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 August 2016 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 14.66 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumberland Durham and Tees |
| Grid reference | 424500, 586900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bothal Barns FarmInert
- 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.