West of Wolsingham
IndustrialInert
West of Wolsingham is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolsingham, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1971 and 1982, covering about 3.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD05907, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05907 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West of Wolsingham |
| Address | Land Between Westfie, House and Hare Law, Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Weardale Steel ( Wolsingham ) Limited |
| Licence holder | Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1971 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 3.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 406200, 537100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Railway 1km East of FrosterleyWaste 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.