Station Town Disused Railway
Inert
Station Town Disused Railway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Peterlee, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1993, covering about 2.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD05910, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05910 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Station Town Disused Railway |
| Address | Station Town, Wingate, County Durham |
| Site operator | Durham County Council |
| Licence holder | Durham County Council |
| Licence issued | 18 May 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 19 May 1979 |
| Last waste input | 16 February 1993 |
| Area | 2.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 440700, 535400 |
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
- Area N East of Station HouseWaste types not recorded
- Tilery Farm No.2IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tilery Farm No.3IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tilery Farm No.4IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tilery Farm WingateIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Glass's FarmCommercial
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.