Butterknowle Sewage Treatment
Inert
Butterknowle Sewage Treatment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crook, County Durham. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 0.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD05935, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05935 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Butterknowle Sewage Treatment |
| Address | Butterknowle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Northumbrian Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 411500, 525500 |
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
- Disused Pit No.1 at Cockfield FellWaste types not recorded
- Disused Pit North West of CockfieldWaste types not recorded
- St VincentsWaste types not recorded
- Mount PleasantWaste types not recorded
- High LandsWaste types not recorded
- Disused Tip South West of CockfieldWaste 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.