Cragwood Waste Disposal Site
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cragwood Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crook, County Durham. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1940 and 1984, covering about 5.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD06039, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06039 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cragwood Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Cockfield, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
| Site operator | Durham County Council |
| Licence holder | Director of Environment, Durham County Council |
| Licence issued | 24 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 April 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 13 April 1984 |
| Area | 5.51 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 414000, 524500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cragwood QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Land North East of CockfieldWaste types not recorded
- Disused Workings East of CockfieldWaste types not recorded
- Disused TipWaste types not recorded
- Land South of CockfieldWaste types not recorded
- High LandsWaste 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.