Disused Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hartlepool, Hartlepool. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1990, covering about 5.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD05505, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05505 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Greatham, Hartlepool, South Works |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Steel Corporation |
| Licence issued | 6 June 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 March 1988 |
| First waste input | 6 June 1985 |
| Last waste input | 26 October 1990 |
| Area | 5.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 450000, 527600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- South Works Slag Tip, HartlepoolIndustrialInert
- Claxton GrangeSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Graythorp TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Graythorp TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- North of Seaton LaneWaste types not recorded
- Sewage Works North of A1185IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.