Males Tip
IndustrialHousehold
Males Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial and household waste between 1964 and 1980, covering about 1.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD29070, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29070 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Males Tip |
| Address | Dene Avenue, Kingswinford, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Male and Sons |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 1.42 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 388200, 287700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Males TipIndustrial
- Gorse CornerWaste types not recorded
- Bradley Hall QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Bells LaneInert
- Clugstons's TipWaste types not recorded
- Standhills RoadWaste 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.