Pockerly Farm Beamish
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Pockerly Farm Beamish is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanley, County Durham. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1970 and 1982, covering about 6.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD06307, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06307 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pockerly Farm Beamish |
| Address | Hammer Square Bank, Beamish, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Armstrong Cork Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1982 |
| Area | 6.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 422800, 554400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Beamish Caravan SiteWaste types not recorded
- Mount EscobWaste types not recorded
- Area H North BeamishWaste types not recorded
- Urpeth Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Area G West of High HandenhoWaste types not recorded
- High Urpeth Quarry / Landfill Site / Hargreaves Clearwaste LimitedSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.