Lemington Gut
IndustrialInert
Lemington Gut is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blaydon. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1987, covering about 1.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD06158, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06158 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lemington Gut |
| Address | Lemington Gut, Lemington, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M Grady Builder ( Ncle ) Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 March 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 January 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 1.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 418300, 564400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Anglo Great Lakes No.1IndustrialInert
- Newburn Haugh LandfillIndustrialInert
- Stella NorthIndustrial
- Denton Dene SouthInert
- Sandy BanksWaste types not recorded
- Denton DeneInert
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.