Beacon Dairy Farm
CommercialInert
Beacon Dairy Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aldridge. It received commercial and inert waste between 1937 and 1985, covering about 3.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD18202, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18202 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Beacon Dairy Farm |
| Address | Doe Bank Lane, Barr Beacon, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | James Godfrey Wright |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 21 October 1937 |
| Last waste input | 20 December 1985 |
| Area | 3.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 406300, 296400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Blue House FarmInert
- Gentleshaw Sand LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Gentleshaw's Sand HoleIndustrialCommercialInert
- Booths Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Booths Farm TipWaste types not recorded
- Booths Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.