Dene Hopes Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dene Hopes Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Spennymoor, County Durham. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1986, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD05432, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05432 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dene Hopes Farm |
| Address | Kirk Merrington, Spennymoor, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G W Stephenson |
| Licence issued | 22 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 March 1989 |
| First waste input | 23 October 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 425900, 531100 |
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
- Area D Hall Heads QuarryWaste types not recorded
- North of Hall Heads FarmWaste types not recorded
- Leeholme FieldIndustrial
- Leasingthorne CollieryWaste types not recorded
- Hall HeadsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Sours TipWaste 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.