Hawkesbury Landfill Site
IndustrialInert
Hawkesbury Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bedworth, Warwickshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1920 and 1984, covering about 6.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD28738, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28738 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hawkesbury Landfill Site |
| Address | Hawkesbury Lane, Coventry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J and H B Jackson Limited - Lias Quarries Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 December 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1920 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 6.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 436400, 284700 |
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
- Hawkesbury LandfillIndustrialInert
- Hawkesbury Power StationIndustrialInert
- Hawkesbury Colliery FarmWaste types not recorded
- Hawkesbury Power StationInert
- ParkersWaste types not recorded
- Blackhorse RoadIndustrialInert
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.