River Tame Purification Lake
Industrial
River Tame Purification Lake is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It received industrial waste from 1982, covering about 13.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD23550, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23550 |
|---|---|
| Site name | River Tame Purification Lake |
| Address | Coton Road, Lea Marston, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Environment Agency |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 13.53 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 420400, 294000 |
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
- Lea Marston No.2IndustrialCommercialInert
- CEGB Site No.2Inert
- ARC Lea MarstonInert
- Birmingham RoadInert
- Land East Of Hams LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land West Of Hams LaneInert
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.