Knitsley Fell
Industrial
Knitsley Fell is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolsingham, County Durham. It received industrial waste between 1969 and 1981, covering about 5.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD05911, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05911 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knitsley Fell |
| Address | Knitsley Fell, Bedburn, Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr G S Boswell |
| Licence issued | 8 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 May 1987 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 5.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 410100, 534200 |
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
- OS Field 148IndustrialInert
- Harperley BankWaste types not recorded
- Thornley South Area AWaste 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.