Ryton on Dunsmore Landfill Site
Household
Ryton on Dunsmore Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coventry. It received household waste between 1978 and 1982, covering about 9.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD28574, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28574 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ryton on Dunsmore Landfill Site |
| Address | Leamington Road, Ryton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Warwickshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 9.34 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 437300, 272500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ryton Wood No.2Industrial
- Blue Circle Aggregates, RytonIndustrialInert
- Ryton No.2 - ExtensionSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ryton Wood No.3Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Rock FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Rock Farm LandfillIndustrial
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.