Etherly Tip
IndustrialInert
Etherly Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crook, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1956 and 1989, covering about 19.29 hectares. Reference EAHLD05923, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05923 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Etherly Tip |
| Address | Etherley Tip,Witton Park, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | British Rail |
| Licence holder | British Rail Divisional Civil Eng |
| Licence issued | 9 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 October 1989 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1956 |
| Last waste input | 5 October 1989 |
| Area | 19.29 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 417300, 530500 |
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
- Witton Park QuarryInert
- Witton Park Quarry No.2IndustrialInert
- Escomb WestWaste types not recorded
- Escomb North EastWaste types not recorded
- Howden le Wear CollieryWaste 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.