Elford Pit
HouseholdCommercial
Elford Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tamworth, Staffordshire. It received household and commercial waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 65.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD23338, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23338 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elford Pit |
| Address | Fisherwick Road, Fisherwick, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | ARC Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 September 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 65.89 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 418600, 308600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Pit holeWaste types not recorded
- Fisherwick Hall FarmCommercial
- Hanson Elford Pit Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Birdsley FarmHousehold
- Wiggington Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
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.