Landfill Check

Hill Top Farm

Inert

Hill Top Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD05903, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05903
Site nameHill Top Farm
AddressHill Top Farm,Cassop, Durham, County Durham
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderR N Foord and Son
Licence issued19 December 1984
Licence surrendered27 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1993
Last waste input27 April 1994
Area0.41 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference433400, 538100

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.