Historic landfill sites in Hereford, County of Herefordshire
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Hereford, County of Herefordshire. covering roughly 67 hectares in total. The largest is Sutton Walls at 17.34 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Hereford (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Walls | 17.34 ha | 1981 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Birstow's Tip | 15.04 ha | 1994 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Lower Bullingham | 5.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Green Farm Quarry | 4.47 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Belmont | 4.27 ha | 1987 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Quarry | 3.23 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Sutton Hill Quarry | 3.19 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| St. Donats Farm | 2.35 ha | — | Inert |
| Roman Road | 2.27 ha | — | Commercial |
| Belmont Quarry Landfill | 1.71 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Primose Bank | 1.02 ha | 1985 | Industrial |
| Shenmore Tip | 0.96 ha | 1980 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.88 ha | — | Inert |
| Callow Farm | 0.88 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Burghill Sewage Treatment Works | 0.86 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Withington Tile Works | 0.78 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Grove Farm | 0.42 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Bryngwyn Tip | 0.42 ha | 1974 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Burlton Court | 0.32 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cobhall Common | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bagpipers Tump | 0.25 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| St. Peters Close | 0.19 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Tupsley Court | 0.13 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| King Pitts Farm | 0.09 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 Hereford?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hereford 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 Hereford?
- 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.