Redworth Fields
Inert
Redworth Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shildon, County Durham. It received inert waste in 1983, covering about 0.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD06566, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06566 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Redworth Fields |
| Address | Redworth, Shildon, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tarmac Regional Construction |
| Licence issued | 28 March 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 July 1983 |
| First waste input | 28 March 1983 |
| Last waste input | 6 July 1983 |
| Area | 0.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 423900, 523400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Redworth FieldsInert
- Redworth FieldsInert
- Highside Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- High Side TipWaste types not recorded
- Middridge QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Thickley QuarryWaste 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.