McCarry's Tip Old Fisher Lane
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McCarry's Tip Old Fisher Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cramlington, Northumberland. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1968, covering about 9.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD06112, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06112 |
|---|---|
| Site name | McCarry's Tip Old Fisher Lane |
| Address | North of Seaton Burn, North Tyneside |
| Site operator | D D M C Carry |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1968 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.4 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 424000, 574800 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Fisher LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Arcot LaneInert
- Brenkley Colliery Phase 2Inert
- Seaton Burn HallInert
- Big Waters NurseryInert
- Sterling OrganicsWaste 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.