Historic landfill sites in Market Drayton, Shropshire
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Market Drayton, Shropshire. covering roughly 40 hectares in total. The largest is Almington Quarry at 15.69 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Market Drayton (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almington Quarry | 15.69 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lostford Hall Farm | 3.95 ha | 1976 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Tadgedale Quarry | 3.7 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Wellings Ltd Landfill | 2.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Chipnall | 1.71 ha | 1979 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Terminus Tip | 1.61 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeCommercial |
| Lythburn | 1.28 ha | 1973 | Household |
| Bird-In-Hand, Woodseaves | 1.06 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Ellerdine Heath Railway Cutting | 1.03 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Weobley Farm, Hodnet Heath | 0.89 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.77 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Stoke Heath, London Road, Tern Hill | 0.73 ha | 1985 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Pellwall Stables, Newport Road, Market Drayton | 0.7 ha | 1990 | Industrial |
| Railway Cutting R/O Working Mens Club Wollerton | 0.54 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ellerdine Heath Railway Cutting | 0.48 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ellerdine Heath Phase 2 | 0.43 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Hodnet Refuse Tip | 0.42 ha | 1976 | Waste types not recorded |
| Ellerdine Heath Phase 3 | 0.42 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Lightwood Farm, Cheswardine | 0.4 ha | 1975 | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Railway Cutting, Ternhill | 0.32 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Bletchley, Ternhill | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Flash Lane | 0.23 ha | — | Household |
| Gas Holder, Market Drayton | 0.23 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Field South Of Mount Farm, Little Bolas | 0.16 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Yew Tree Farm, Cheswardine | 0.14 ha | 1977 | Household |
| Market Drayton Sewage Works | 0.07 ha | 1965 | Waste types not recorded |
| Ellerdine Hall Farm, Ellerdine | 0.06 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 Market Drayton?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Market Drayton 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 Market Drayton?
- 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.