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Historic landfill sites in Alcester, Warwickshire

The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Alcester, Warwickshire. covering roughly 20 hectares in total. The largest is Kings Lane at 4.79 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Alcester (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Kings Lane4.79 ha1964Household
Stradford-On-Avon RefuseTip3.63 haIndustrialCommercial
Old Council Tip off Salford Road3.6 haWaste types not recorded
United Carriers Landfill Site1.25 ha1988Inert
Crab Tree Farm Nursery0.86 haHousehold
Bleachfield Street0.64 haWaste types not recorded
Kings Coughton Cutting0.63 ha1992Inert
Broom Mill0.6 ha1986Inert
New End Farm0.41 haWaste types not recorded
Dismantled Railway0.35 haHousehold
The Warren, Temple Grafton0.33 ha1970Inert
Mudwalls Farm0.2 haHouseholdCommercial
Disused Pit0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Bevington Lodge0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Disused Pit0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Limebridge Nurseries0.2 haWaste types not recorded
East of Dunnington Court0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Marsh Farm0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Marsh Farm0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Dismantled Railway0.2 haHousehold
New Inn Lane0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Coughton Ford0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Kingley0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Cock Bevington Farm0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Alcester Heath0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Mudwalls Farm0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Kinwanton Refuse Tip0.2 haIndustrialCommercial

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Alcester?
27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Alcester town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Alcester?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.