Forge Farm
IndustrialInert
Forge Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1997, covering about 0.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD18161, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18161 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Forge Farm |
| Address | Land Off B5234 And Blunts Hollow, Hoar Cross, Abbotts Bromley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | T Farrington and Sons |
| Licence issued | 1 March 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 July 1985 |
| First waste input | 17 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1997 |
| Area | 0.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 411100, 324300 |
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
- Bentilee Park FarmIndustrialInert
- Glass LaneIndustrialCommercialInert
- Bentilee ParkIndustrialInert
- Hurst FarmIndustrialInert
- Gilleons Hall FarmIndustrialInert
- Field House TipIndustrialInert
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.