Rugeley A and B
Industrial
Rugeley A and B is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1956 and 1992, covering about 24.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD23304, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23304 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rugeley A and B |
| Address | Armitage Road, Rugeley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 21 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 December 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1956 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 24.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 406600, 316900 |
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
- Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SGWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SGWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Power StationIndustrial
- Hawkesyard LaneWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Brereton Hill, Near Park FarmHousehold
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.