Lenches Bridge
IndustrialInert
Lenches Bridge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1980, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD28986, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28986 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lenches Bridge |
| Address | Dudley Road, Brierley Hill, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Gibbons Brothers Limited |
| Licence holder | Gibbons Brothers Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 July 1980 |
| First waste input | 2 May 1977 |
| Last waste input | 24 May 1980 |
| Area | 0.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 390200, 288900 |
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
- Ketley QuarryHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ketley Quarry LandfillInert
- Barrmil TipIndustrial
- Dudley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Barmil TipSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Price Pearson TipIndustrial
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.