Ricklees Farm
Inert
Ricklees Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ryton. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1994, covering about 0.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD06250, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06250 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ricklees Farm |
| Address | Near High Spen, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Taylor ( Plant Hire) Company |
| Licence issued | 19 July 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 20 July 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 0.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 414000, 561000 |
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
- Burnhills Quarry No.2HouseholdCommercialInert
- Folly Quarry / BeatwasteSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Phoenix QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Folly QuarryIndustrialInert
- Hollin Hill LaneInert
- Blaydon QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.