New Moors Farm
IndustrialInert
New Moors Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 0.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD05937, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05937 |
|---|---|
| Site name | New Moors Farm |
| Address | New Moors Farm,Evenwood Gate, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J H Hall |
| Licence issued | 6 September 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1985 |
| First waste input | 14 April 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 417100, 524000 |
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
- Randolph CollieryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Bolam Quarry No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.