Wylam Wood Farm No.1
Inert
Wylam Wood Farm No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Prudhoe, Northumberland. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 2.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD06656, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06656 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wylam Wood Farm No.1 |
| Address | Prudhoe, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Andrew Golightly Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 2.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 411100, 563800 |
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
- Wylam Wood FarmInert
- Humbles Gill Waste Disposal SiteWaste types not recorded
- Humbles GillInert
- West Wylam ExtensionLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Crawcrook Quarry SouthIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Crawcrook Quarry No.2IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.