Landfill Check

Former Mineral Railway

Industrial

Former Mineral Railway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burntwood, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste in 1968, covering about 0.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD23343, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23343
Site nameFormer Mineral Railway
AddressHigh Street Cannock Road, Chase Terrace, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderLichfield Rural District Council
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1968
Last waste input31 December 1968
Area0.98 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference404200, 309700

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.