Westfield Terrace
Inert
Westfield Terrace is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgefield, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1980, covering about 1.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD05413, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05413 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westfield Terrace |
| Address | Bishop Middleham, Ferryhill, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Beacon Waste Disposal |
| Licence issued | 8 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 10 May 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 1.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 432700, 531800 |
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
- Bishop Middleham MineInert
- Bishop Middleham Waste Disposal SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Area G East of Bishop Middleton MineInert
- Farncess QuarryCommercial
- Area H Rough FurzeWaste types not recorded
- Island Farm Disused Clay PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.