Heddon Common
HouseholdCommercialInert
Heddon Common is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ryton. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1987, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD06348, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06348 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Heddon Common |
| Address | Heddon Common, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Walker Brothers (Newburn) Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 January 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 412700, 566700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Heddon Common QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- West AcresWaste types not recorded
- Heddon Mill Waste Disposal SitInert
- Rudchester QuarryInert
- Ryton Golf ClubWaste types not recorded
- Clara Vale PiggeryInert
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.