Burnopfield Refuse Disposal Tip
Commercial
Burnopfield Refuse Disposal Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanley, County Durham. It received commercial waste from 1900, covering about 3.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD31745, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31745 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Burnopfield Refuse Disposal Tip |
| Address | Lobleyhill Road, Byermoor, Burnopfield, County Durham |
| Site operator | Stanley Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1900 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 418300, 557000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Burnopfield Waste Disposal SitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bowes Hobson Opencast SiteInert
- Longfield House FarmWaste types not recorded
- East Tanfield Sewage TreatmentIndustrial
- Area F South of BurnopfieldWaste types not recorded
- Tanfield Lee Tip No.1Waste 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.