Landfill Check

Twizell Hall Farm

IndustrialInert

Twizell Hall Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanley, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1996, covering about 4.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD06177, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06177
Site nameTwizell Hall Farm
AddressTwizell Hall Farm,Beamish, Chester-le-Street, County Durham
Site operatorA N Charlton ( Demolition )
Licence holderA N Charlton
Licence issued12 January 1982
Licence surrendered25 April 1996
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area4.32 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference421500, 551500

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.

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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.