Disused Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Walsall. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD18193, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18193 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | North Of Proffitt Street, Leamore, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 25 February 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 28 February 1982 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1983 |
| Area | 0.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 401200, 299800 |
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
- J J Gallagher Limited Landfill SiteIndustrial
- North Walsall DepotWaste types not recorded
- Mill Lane Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercial
- Walsall Power StationIndustrialCommercial
- Arboretum Landfill Site No.3HouseholdCommercial
- Arboretum Landfill Site No.2Waste types not recorded
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.