Greenfoot
IndustrialInert
Greenfoot is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanhope, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1992, covering about 2.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD06824, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06824 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Greenfoot |
| Address | Stanhope, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Weardale Mining and Processing Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 January 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 17 January 1984 |
| Last waste input | 16 November 1992 |
| Area | 2.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 398200, 539100 |
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
- Newlandside QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Lanehead Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Newfield QuarryIndustrialInert
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.