Cocklawburn
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Cocklawburn is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1952 and 1976, covering about 13.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD06392, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06392 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cocklawburn |
| Address | South East of Scremerston, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Ancroft with Kyloe Parish Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 October 1952 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Area | 13.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 402900, 648100 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- ScremerstonInert
- SaltpanhowIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Oxford QuarryInert
- Oxford FarmWaste types not recorded
- Oxford Farm PondInert
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.