Landfill Check

Hopwas Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Hopwas Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tamworth, Staffordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1979 and 1990, covering about 6.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD23340, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23340
Site nameHopwas Quarry
AddressHopwas Quarry, School Lane, Hopwas, Near Tamworth Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMartell, Hidson and Knight
Licence issued26 February 1979
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area6.1 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference417700, 305300

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.