Middlesbrough Dock
IndustrialInert
Middlesbrough Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough. It received industrial and inert waste between 1983 and 1989, covering about 1.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD05597, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05597 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Middlesbrough Dock |
| Address | Middlesbrough, Cleveland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority |
| Licence issued | 12 April 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 November 1989 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1983 |
| Last waste input | 1 November 1989 |
| Area | 1.1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 450000, 520600 |
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
- Middlesbrough DockIndustrialInert
- Grey Street WorksWaste types not recorded
- South WharfWaste types not recorded
- Ormesby RoadIndustrialInert
- Disused Gas Holder, Snowdon RoadWaste types not recorded
- Snowdon RoadWaste 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.