Baggeridge Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Baggeridge Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1974 and 1982, covering about 5.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD29045, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29045 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Baggeridge Quarry |
| Address | Himley Road, Lower Gornel, Dudley, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wimpey Waste Management |
| Licence issued | 19 December 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 September 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1974 |
| Last waste input | 28 June 1982 |
| Area | 5.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 390300, 290900 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Baggeridge QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Smithy Lane and Cinder RoadInert
- Oak LaneWaste types not recorded
- Oak LaneIndustrialInert
- The AlleyHouseholdCommercial
- Stallings Lane, Tansey Green RoadWaste 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.