Landfill Check

Boscobel Quarry

IndustrialInert

Boscobel Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolverhampton. It received industrial and inert waste between 1949 and 1994, covering about 9.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD23875, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23875
Site nameBoscobel Quarry
AddressBoscobel, Codsall Wood, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderD W Watkins (Landfills) Limited
Licence issued30 April 1977
Licence surrendered25 April 1994
First waste input1 January 1949
Last waste input31 March 1994
Area9.6 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference384400, 307500

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

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.