Old Red Lion Site
Industrial
Old Red Lion Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cannock, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1978 and 1989, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD23841, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23841 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Red Lion Site |
| Address | Watling Street, Hatherton, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W G Smith Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 April 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 20 April 1989 |
| Area | 0.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 396500, 309000 |
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
- North West, Wedges MillHousehold
- Iron FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site South Of Wolverhampton RoadHousehold
- Four Crosses Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Landfill Site Adjacent To Wyrley Brook ParkLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
- Landfill Off Delta Way, Near to Sewage Disposal WorksInert
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.