Newbold Farm
IndustrialInert
Newbold Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1972 and 1988, covering about 12.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD18133, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18133 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Newbold Farm |
| Address | Branston, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Powergen - Formerly Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 19 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 November 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 12.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 421300, 319500 |
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
- Marley TileIndustrial
- Branston Ash Lagoon No.4IndustrialInert
- Disused Gravel WorkingsIndustrialInert
- Branston Ash Lagoon No.2IndustrialInert
- Gravel PitLiquid / sludge
- Hollyhock WayWaste 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.