Old Brickyard Clay Hole
Industrial
Old Brickyard Clay Hole is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1987, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD23316, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23316 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Brickyard Clay Hole |
| Address | Off Millmoor Avenur, Armitage, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Armitage Ware Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 January 1987 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 408400, 315800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Brickyard Site/Brickyard Clay HoleHousehold
- Red Lion Tip/Red Lion SiteIndustrialInert
- Landfill Site At Lichfield RoadIndustrial
- Hawkesyard LaneWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Power StationIndustrial
- Rugeley A and BIndustrial
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.