Coton Quarry
IndustrialInert
Coton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1988, covering about 6.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD23523, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23523 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coton Quarry |
| Address | Coton Road, Nether Whitacre Heath, Lea Marston, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | George Wimpey and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 October 1988 |
| First waste input | 15 June 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 October 1988 |
| Area | 6.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 421700, 293100 |
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
- West of Coton RoadIndustrial
- Birmingham RoadCommercialInert
- Birmingham RoadCommercialInert
- Birmingham RoadInert
- Coton Hall Quarry No.2Inert
- ARC Lea MarstonInert
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.