Hillside Farm
Industrial
Hillside Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Houghton-le-Spring. It received industrial waste between 1980 and 1982, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD06570, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06570 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hillside Farm |
| Address | Hillside Farm, Houghton-le Spring, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W Shepherd |
| Licence issued | 23 March 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 August 1980 |
| Last waste input | 1 July 1982 |
| Area | 0.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 434800, 550500 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kirk Lee FieldWaste types not recorded
- Houghton CollieryWaste types not recorded
- British Gas Halliwell StreetWaste types not recorded
- NewbottleLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Long BeachWaste types not recorded
- Hetton Downs NorthIndustrialCommercial
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.