Wallsend Graving Dock
Inert
Wallsend Graving Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Jarrow. It received inert waste in 1986, covering about 0.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD06089, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06089 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wallsend Graving Dock |
| Address | South Side To Howard Doris Structures Ltd, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Howard Dorris Structures Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 February 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 May 1986 |
| First waste input | 12 February 1986 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1986 |
| Area | 0.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 431600, 566100 |
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
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- Blackett Street North Land Reclamation SiteIndustrialCommercial
- Jarrow MillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Howdon Gas WorksInert
- Archer Street BIndustrialHousehold
- Bede CrescentIndustrial
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.