Landfill Check

Moor Wood

CommercialInert

Moor Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Atherstone, Warwickshire. It received commercial and inert waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD23507, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23507
Site nameMoor Wood
AddressMoor Wood Lane, Hartshill, Warwickshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr D Wilkinson
Licence issued22 October 1992
Licence surrendered29 April 1994
First waste input19 August 1993
Last waste input1 April 1994
Area1.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference431800, 293700

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.