Poolhouse Road Landfill Site
Industrial
Poolhouse Road Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial waste between 1962 and 1967, covering about 1.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD23896, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23896 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Poolhouse Road Landfill Site |
| Address | Poolhouse Road Landfill Site, Wombourne |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Area | 1.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 386300, 292700 |
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
- Vickers Sand QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- British Waterways Giggetty LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Redland Landfill SiteCommercial
- F. G. Davis TipIndustrial
- Ounsdale QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- 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.