Modern landfill site currently operated by Viridian Waste Management (2005). The site was created by coal mining adjacent to Neepsend Electricity Station at the foot of the site to the west from the 1920s onwards on the 'Old Park Wood' likely to have been a spring wood within Shirecliffe Deer Park (see Walton 1943 and adjacent records). Aerial photographs from the 1960s indicate that the use of the site as a tipping site extends back at least to the late 1950s.