Leeholme Field
Industrial
Leeholme Field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Spennymoor, County Durham. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1985, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD05480, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05480 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leeholme Field |
| Address | Middlestone Village, Spennymoor, County Durham |
| Site operator | W Blackett and Son |
| Licence holder | W Blackett and Son |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 April 1989 |
| First waste input | 6 October 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 424900, 530500 |
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
- Leasingthorne CollieryWaste types not recorded
- Hoppers SmallholdingInert
- Dene Hopes FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Area D Hall Heads QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Westerton QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Quarry CoundonInert
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.