Old Birchalls Wharf
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Old Birchalls Wharf is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darlaston. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1940 and 1984, covering about 10.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD21020, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD21020 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Birchalls Wharf |
| Address | Ernest Thomas (walsall) Ltd's Landfill Site, Moxley Road, Moxley, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Ernest Thomas (Walsall) Limited |
| Licence holder | Ernest Thomas (Walsall) Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 March 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 May 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1984 |
| Area | 10.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 396800, 296100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Land Adjacent To Walsall CanalWaste types not recorded
- Land West Of Festival AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Heathfield Lane WestIndustrialInert
- Falcon Galvanising WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Victoria Steelworks Mine ShaftSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Falcon WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.