Ounsdale Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Ounsdale Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1991, covering about 8.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD23899, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23899 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ounsdale Quarry |
| Address | Ounsdale Road, Wombourne, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mintworth Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 March 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 8.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 386700, 293300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Station Road - Mount Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Poolhouse Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Vickers Sand QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Redland Landfill SiteCommercial
- British Waterways Giggetty LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Poolhouse LaneIndustrialInert
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.