Smestow Bridge
Waste types not recorded
Smestow Bridge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1986 and 1995, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD23902, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23902 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Smestow Bridge |
| Address | Wombourne, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Staffordshire County Council Surveyor Department/County Highways |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 1996 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1986 |
| Last waste input | 15 May 1995 |
| Area | 1.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 385400, 292400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Redland Landfill SiteCommercial
- Vickers Sand QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Poolhouse LaneIndustrialInert
- F. G. Davis TipIndustrial
- British Waterways Giggetty LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Poolhouse Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
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.