Studley Watkins
Inert
Studley Watkins is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redditch, Worcestershire. It received inert waste between 1973 and 1987, covering about 2.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD28637, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28637 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Studley Watkins |
| Address | Middletown Farm, Cutting South of Studley Station, Middletown Lane, Sambourne, Studley, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G H Watkins Plant Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 October 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1973 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 2.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 406200, 263300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Studley Brickworks Landfill Site, StudleyIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Oak Tree LaneHousehold
- Priory MillWaste types not recorded
- Polar StarInert
- Eastern Hill FarmWaste types not recorded
- Eastern Hill FarmInert
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.