Wyrley No.3/Colliery Mound
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Wyrley No.3/Colliery Mound is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bloxwich. It received household and commercial waste between 1974 and 1978, covering about 5.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD23822, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23822 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wyrley No.3/Colliery Mound |
| Address | Gains Lane, Little Wyrley, Wyrley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Staffordshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 9 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 June 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1978 |
| Area | 5.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 400200, 306700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Landfill Site Near Gains PlantationHousehold
- Landfill Site North West Of Great WyrleyInert
- Norton Aluminium Products LimitedIndustrialCommercial
- Landfill Site Opposite Moss FarmWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site Off Grove LaneWaste types not recorded
- Sports Ground Opposite Moss 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.