Historic landfill sites in Broseley, Shropshire
The Environment Agency records 28 historic landfill sites in and around Broseley, Shropshire. covering roughly 131 hectares in total. The largest is Land off Coalbrookdale road at 38.9 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Broseley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land off Coalbrookdale road | 38.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ironbridge A | 18.47 ha | — | Industrial |
| Stoneyhill | 15.31 ha | 1991 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Coalmoor North OCCS | 7.96 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Sutton Hall Farm | 6.8 ha | — | Inert |
| Stoneyhill Field | 5.92 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Field 7432 Adjacent To Ironbridge Bypass | 5.54 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Sutton Hall Farm Landfill | 5.34 ha | — | Inert |
| Lightmoor Landscape | 4.71 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Coppice House, Huntington | 3.41 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Ibstock Brick | 3.38 ha | 1970 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Woodside Tip | 3.33 ha | 1980 | Waste types not recorded |
| Crackshall Lane | 2.37 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Ibstock Brick | 1.83 ha | 1970 | Waste types not recorded |
| Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge | 1.61 ha | 1969 | Household |
| Old Shutfield Works | 1.1 ha | 1965 | Waste types not recorded |
| Broseley Refuse Tip | 1.08 ha | 1974 | Waste types not recorded |
| System Pallets, Broseley | 0.97 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Coalbrookdale Works | 0.84 ha | 1988 | Industrial |
| Home Farm, Buildwas | 0.51 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Silvertrees Landfill | 0.35 ha | — | Industrial |
| Maws Tile Works, Jackfield | 0.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Lloyds, Coalport | 0.25 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Beech Road | 0.23 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Balls Lane, Adjactent to Ironbridge Road | 0.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pound Lane, Broseley | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Church Farm Buildwas | 0.2 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Broseley Cottage Hospital | 0.1 ha | — | Waste 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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Broseley?
- 28 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Broseley town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Broseley?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.