Black Country Museum
IndustrialInert
Black Country Museum is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dudley. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1980, covering about 6.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD28952, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28952 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Black Country Museum |
| Address | Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 7 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 May 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 6.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 394800, 291600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Castle StreetLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- The Bearpit - Dudley ZooWaste types not recorded
- Park Lane WestIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dudley Sports CentreIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Birmingham RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Coneygre FoundryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.