Landfill Check

Brickyard Farm

Industrial

Brickyard Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lichfield, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1931 and 1989, covering about 1.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD23321, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23321
Site nameBrickyard Farm
AddressFradley, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderW A Mansell
Licence issued21 July 1977
Licence surrendered11 September 1989
First waste input31 December 1931
Last waste input9 August 1989
Area1.64 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference415000, 311800

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.

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.