Stafford County Showground
IndustrialInert
Stafford County Showground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stafford, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 0.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD29098, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29098 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stafford County Showground |
| Address | Weston Road, Stafford, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Elmstar Plant Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 June 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1991 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1989 |
| Area | 0.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 395400, 325200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Within Lane and Weston Road JunctionIndustrialInert
- Lower Hanyards FarmWaste types not recorded
- Beaconside FarmWaste types not recorded
- Messrs H. Nickolls and SonWaste types not recorded
- Weston Bank/Weston QuarryIndustrialHousehold
- Tixall Heath FarmWaste types not recorded
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.