Highdown Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Highdown Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stourbridge. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1991 and 1992, covering about 2.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD23918, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23918 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Highdown Quarry |
| Address | Sugar Loaf Lane, Iverley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lightening Quarries |
| Licence issued | 13 May 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 September 1992 |
| First waste input | 13 May 1991 |
| Last waste input | 13 September 1992 |
| Area | 2.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 387900, 281500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Highdown QuarryWaste types not recorded
- James and Martin Connolly LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Norton Sand QuarryIndustrialInert
- Whittington QuarryWaste 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.