Blue Circle Aggregates, Ryton
IndustrialInert
Blue Circle Aggregates, Ryton is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coventry. It received industrial and inert waste between 1973 and 1979, covering about 1.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD28581, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28581 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Blue Circle Aggregates, Ryton |
| Address | Land to the West of Ryton Wood, Leamington Road, Ryton on Dunsmore, Near Coventry, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Blue Circle Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 July 1973 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 1.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 437300, 272200 |
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
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- Ryton on Dunsmore Landfill SiteHousehold
- Ryton Wood No.2Industrial
- Ryton Wood No.3Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Rock FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Rock Farm LandfillIndustrial
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.