Orton Lane
Industrial
Orton Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial waste between 1970 and 1981, covering about 2.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD23914, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23914 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Orton Lane |
| Address | Orton Lane, Orton, Wombourne, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | F G Davis and Son Limited |
| Licence holder | F G Davis and Sons (Contractors) Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 May 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 1 March 1981 |
| Area | 2.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 387100, 294900 |
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
- Station Road - Mount Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Ounsdale QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Roughs RoadWaste types not recorded
- Radford LaneHouseholdCommercial
- Woodford Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Sunnyside Sands BedsWaste 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.