Bantoms Field
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Bantoms Field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1954 and 1980, covering about 6.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD23905, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23905 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bantoms Field |
| Address | Disused Sand Pit, Ebstree Road, Seisdon, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Wolverhampton County Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1954 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 6.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 384100, 295500 |
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
- Ebstree Road Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
- Seisdon Sand BedsHouseholdCommercial
- Seisdon Post Office LaneIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Roughs RoadWaste types not recorded
- Woodford Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
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.